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悍

hàn

courageous

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 旱 represents the sound. Simplified form of 猂.

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

旱 sound component

旱  Sound component

hàn

  

drought

Evolution

悍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
悍 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
悍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

悍  

hàn

courageous, brave; violent; heroic; intrepid; valiant; dauntless; fierce; ferocious

悍 (猂) 

hàn

variant of 悍[hàn]

Most common words with 悍
Freq.
Word
Meaning

强悍

valiant

悍

heroic

凶悍

violent

彪悍

tough as nails

悍然

outrageous

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.1967% of movies

2486th most common character in movies

3073rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+608D

Shuowen

“悍，勇也。从心，旱聲。”


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