zhān
silk banner with bent pole
Depicts a type of ancient flag (㫃) that was colored red (丹) and had a bent pole.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5181st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+65C3 |
Shuowen | “旃,旗曲柄也,所以旃表士眾。从,丹聲。《周禮》曰:‘通帛為旃。’旜,旃或从亶。” |
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