zàn
temporary
Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 斬 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz]ˤam-s | dzamH | zàn | suddenly |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 28.1595% of movies
1349th most common character in movies
1325th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+66AB |
Shuowen | “暫，不久也。从日，斬聲。” |
Sources
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