duān, zhuān
tip, start, extremity
Pictograph of the roots and leaves of a plant, i.e. the extremities of a plant.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤor | twan | duān | tip (n.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 56.4793% of movies
771st most common character in movies
485th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8011 |
Shuowen | “耑,物初生之題也。上象生形,下象其根也。” |
Sources
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