shàn
repair
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 善 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 |
*[g]e[n]ʔ-s | dzyenH | shàn | (make good:) repair |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3981st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7E55 |
Shuowen | “繕,補也。从糸,善聲。” |
Sources
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