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Chinese

全

quán

pure jade

Ideogrammatic compound 會意
HSK 2
TOCFL 5
radical 入
6 strokes

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Origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 入 + 玉 (“jade”) – a whole piece of jade; pure jade.

Cognate with 痊 (OC *sʰlon, “to become cured”) (Karlgren, 1956).

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Lineage

ideaChinese入 “to enter; to go into”
ideaChinese玉 “jade (originally nephrite, now also including jadeite)”

Words built on it: 安全, 完全, 全部, 全球, 全面, 全身, 全家, 全年, 全世界, 健全

Meanings

character

pure jade
complete; whole; entire
completely; wholly
everything; all
perfect; flawless; faultless
to preserve; to save; to keep whole or intact

國語辭典 definitions

完整、完備。例：十全、齊全、文武雙全
整個、全體。例：全家、全神貫注、全軍覆沒
保持完好。例：苟全、全身而退
完全、都。表示範圍。例：全自動化、全無音訊
姓。

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How 全 was written 字形演變

Chu slips & silk
楚系簡帛
Warring States
Small seal
說文小篆
Shuowen, c. 100 CE
Regular
楷書
since c. 200 CE

Historical forms collected by the legacy etymfun dataset; most characters have several attested variants.

Sources

Historical glyph forms (zdic.net 字形演变) — Rights unverified
HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
Written form — n/a
Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
Wiktionary: 全