shān
rank odour of sheep or goats
The smell of a large flock of sheep 羊
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s.tan | syen | shān | smell of sheep |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5647th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Unicode | U+7FB4 |
Shuowen | “羴，羊臭也。从三羊。羶，羴或从亶。” |
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