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存

cún

exist, keep

Phonosemantic compound. 子 represents the meaning and 才 represents the sound.

Components
子 meaning component

子  Meaning component

zi, zǐ

  

child

才 sound component

才  Sound component

cái

  

talent

Evolution

存 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
存 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
存 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

存  

cún

exist, live, be; survive; remain; to exist; to deposit; to store; to keep; to survive

Most common words with 存
Freq.
Word
Meaning

存在

to exist

存

to exist

生存

to exist

幸存者

survivor

保存

to conserve

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

荐

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz]ˤə[n]

dzwon

cún

exist


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 58.7698% of movies

679th most common character in movies

384th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+5B58

Shuowen

“存，恤問也。从子，才聲。”


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