sǔn

diminish, lose

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

员 sound component

  Sound component

yuán

  

member

Evolution

损 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
损 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
损 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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sǔn

diminish; impair; injure; to decrease; to lose; to damage; to harm; (coll.) to speak sarcastically; to deride; caustic; mean; one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (䷨)

Most common words with 损
Freq.
Word
Meaning

损失

loss

损伤

to harm

损害

harm

to lose

损坏

to damage

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 27.2786% of movies

1302nd most common character in movies

911th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+635F


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