chán

beautiful

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

單 sound component

  Sound component

dānshàn

  

single

Evolution

嬋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嬋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

chán

beautiful, lovely, pretty, graceful; beautiful; graceful

Most common words with 嬋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

beautiful

婵娟

moon

婵媛

to be interwoven

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3970th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+5B0B

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“嬋,嬋娟,態也。从女,單聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License