cǎn
if
Phonosemantic compound. 曰 represents the meaning and 兓 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+6701 |
Shuowen | “朁,曾也。从曰,兓聲。《詩》曰:‘朁不畏明。’” |
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