冤

yuān
#2,391 most
frequent character
injustice, grievance, wrong

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

冤 yuān first meant to cover. Its two parts are now empty: 冖 was once 网 net, and 兔 was once 免 miǎn, a sound part. The senses wrong, injustice, grievance, and enmity came later; 'wrong' was borrowed for sound.

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Same Characters, Different Readings

冤yuān
old variant of 冤[yuan1]

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