Chinese Character Wiki
展

zhǎn

open

Original meaning: 

roll over

Phonosemantic compound. 尸 represents the meaning and 𧝑 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "roll over". The meaning later shifted to "unfold", "spread out", and "develop".

Components
尸 meaning component

尸  Meaning component

shī

  

sitting person

Depicts a person sitting or squatting.

𧝑 sound,remnant component

𧝑  Sound Remnant component

zhàn

  

royal silk clothing

Evolution

展 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

展  

zhǎn

open, unfold; stretch, extend; to spread out; to open up; to exhibit; to put into effect; to postpone; to prolong; exhibition

展  

Zhǎn

surname Zhan

Most common words with 展
Freq.
Word
Meaning

发展

growth

展示

to reveal

进展

to make headway

展现

to come out

开展

to launch

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

冁

Sound component in 5 characters (0 verified)

辗 輾 碾 冁 搌

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*trenʔ

trjenX

zhǎn

roll over; unfold

*tra[n]-s

trjenH

zhǎn

ritual robe


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 56.2550% of movies

720th most common character in movies

275th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+5C55

Shuowen

“展，轉也。从尸，省聲。”


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