chuàn
string
Pictograph of two objects on a skewer or strung together.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
chuàn
string; relatives; conspire; to string together; to skewer; to connect wrongly; to gang up; to rove; bunch; skewer; classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of; to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus); to move across
Most common words with 串
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to skewer | ||
a succession of | ||
to substitute for | ||
to collude | ||
to call on sb |
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