diǎn
document, work of scholarship
Depicts two hands (廾) holding a book (冊).
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
diǎn
law, canon; documentation; classic, scripture; canon; law; standard work of scholarship; literary quotation or allusion; ceremony; to be in charge of; to mortgage or pawn
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤə[r]ʔ | tenX | diǎn | statute, norm |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 28.8003% of movies
1205th most common character in movies
1044th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+5178 |
Shuowen | “典,五帝之書也。从在丌上,尊閣之也。莊都說:“典,大也。’,古文典从竹。” |
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