chén
dust
Dust 土 kicked up by a fleeing deer 鹿
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]rə[n] | drin | chén | dust (n.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 10.1233% of movies
1957th most common character in movies
1718th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5875 |
Shuowen | “，鹿行揚土也。从麤，从土。” |
Sources
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