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纔

shān, cái

silky color

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 毚 represents the sound. Also an archaic variant form of 才.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

thread

毚 sound component

毚  Sound component

chán

  

cunning

Evolution

纔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
纔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

纔  

shān

reddish black

才 (纔) 

cái

a moment ago; just now; (indicating sth happening later than expected); (preceded by a clause of condition or reason) not until; (followed by a numerical clause) only

Most common words with 纔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

才

ability

刚才

just now

才能

talent

人才

talent

天才

talent

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 98.5584% of movies

179th most common character in movies

235th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Unicode

U+7E94

Shuowen

“纔，帛雀頭色。一曰微黑色如紺。纔，淺也。讀若讒。从糸，毚聲。”


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