kǎn
upright and strong
As trustworthy 㐰 as spring-water 川
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 侃
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to ridicule | ||
cheerful | ||
to speak frankly with assurance | ||
to possess assurance and composure | ||
to chatter idly |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3315th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+4F83 |
Shuowen | “侃,剛直也。从,,古文信;从川,取其不舍晝夜。《論語》曰:‘子路侃侃如也。’” |
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