duān
end, hold with both hands
Phonosemantic compound. 立 represents the meaning and 耑 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤor | twan | duān | tip (n.) |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 23.0178% of movies
1475th most common character in movies
916th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+7AEF |
Shuowen | “端,直也。从立,耑聲。” |
Sources
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