Chinese Character Wiki

剡

shàn, yǎn

sharp

Components
炎 sound component

炎  Sound component

yán

  

flame

刂 meaning component

刂  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

knife

Evolution

剡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
剡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

剡  

shàn

sharp, sharp-pointed; sharpen; river in Zhejiang

剡  

yǎn

sharp

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-r[a]mʔ

yemX

yǎn

sharp; pierce


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6348th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+5261

Shuowen

“剡，銳利也。从刀，炎聲。”


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