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損

sǔn

diminish, lose

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 員 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

員 sound component

員  Sound component

yuán

  

member

Evolution

損 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
損 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
損 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

损 (損) 

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 損
Freq.
Word
Meaning

损失

loss

损伤

to harm

损害

harm

损

to lose

损坏

to damage

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s-q]ʷˤə[n]ʔ

swonX

sǔn

diminish, 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

13

Simplified

损

Unicode

U+640D

Shuowen

“損，減也。从手，員聲。”


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