shān
slander
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 册 represents the sound. Simplified form of 姍.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 姗
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
slow | ||
unhurried | ||
to be late | ||
Roxanne or Roxane or Rosanna (name) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.4325% of movies
3198th most common character in movies
3883rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+59D7 |
Shuowen | “姍,誹也。一曰翼便也。从女,刪省聲。” |
Sources
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