shàn

repair

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
纟 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

is a component form of .

善 sound component

  Sound component

shàn

  

good

Evolution

缮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
缮 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
缮 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
缮 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

shàn

repair, mend; rewrite, transcribe; to repair; to mend; to rewrite; to transcribe

Most common words with 缮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

修缮

to renovate

to repair

缮写

to copy

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3981st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Traditional

Unicode

U+7F2E


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