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磙

gǔn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (archaic) stone roller (farm tool)
  2. 2 (archaic) to roll or level with a stone roller

Examples

HSK 7-9
磙指农民用来压实土的石头滚子。
Gǔn zhǐ nóngmín yònglái yāshí tǔ de shítou gǔnzi.
This character means the stone roller a farmer used to press the soil firm.

Tips

history
磙 has no standalone modern use; today the rolling sense is carried by 滚 (to roll) and 碾 (to crush). It is a phono-semantic char: the stone radical 石 plus the phonetic 衮, which also gives the sound in 滚.
register
Archaic agricultural vocabulary; found in old farming texts and etymology notes, not modern speech.

Components

radical
石 shí
stone
石 is the stone radical. The roller this character names was a stone cylinder, so the stone element supplies the literal material and meaning.
phonetic
衮 gǔn
ceremonial dragon robe
衮 supplies the sound gǔn cleanly with no meaning contribution. It is the same phonetic in 滚, the modern char for rolling.

Stroke Order

磙 gǔn