dǎn

to dust

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

單 sound component

  Sound component

dānshàn

  

single

Evolution

撣 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
撣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
撣 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

dǎn

to dust; a duster; to brush away; to dust off; brush; duster; CL:[bǎ]

Most common words with 撣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

brush

掸子

duster

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4402nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+64A3

Shuowen

“撣,提持也。从手,單聲。”


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