Chinese Character Wiki

狻

suān

a fabulous beast

Components
犭 meaning component

犭  Meaning component

quǎn

  

dog

animal

夋 sound component

夋  Sound component

qūn

  

to dawdle

Evolution

狻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
狻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

狻  

suān

a fabulous beast; (mythical animal)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4637th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+72FB

Shuowen

“狻，狻麑，如虦貓，食虎豹者。从犬，夋聲。見《爾雅》。”


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