shān

weep

Water  falling from closed eyes 

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

林 meaning component

  Meaning component

lín

  

forest

月 meaning component

  Meaning component

yuè

  

moon

Evolution

潸 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
潸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
潸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shān

weep; tears flowing; tearfully

Most common words with 潸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

潸然泪下

to shed silent tears (idiom)

tearfully

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s]ˤra[n]

sraen

shān

tears flowing

*[s]ra[n]

srean

shān

tears flowing


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5126th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+6F78

Shuowen

“潸,涕流皃。从水,省聲。《詩》曰:‘潸焉出涕。’”


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