cán
injure
Phonosemantic compound. 歹 represents the meaning and 戔 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz]ˤa[n] | dzan | cán | damage; hurt; cruel |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 33.1091% of movies
1186th most common character in movies
1150th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6B98 |
Shuowen | “殘,賊也。从歺,戔聲。” |
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