gān
liver
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 干 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s.kˤa[r] | kan | gān | liver |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 6.9678% of movies
2051st most common character in movies
1760th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+809D |
Shuowen | “肝，木藏也。从肉，干聲。” |
Sources
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