shān
weep
Water 氵 falling from closed eyes 林
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
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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