Chinese Character Wiki

腆

tiǎn

prosperous

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 典 represents the sound.

Components
⺼ meaning component

⺼  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

典 sound component

典  Sound component

diǎn

  

document, work of scholarship

Evolution

腆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
腆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
腆 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
腆 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

腆  

tiǎn

prosperous; good; protruding; make strong (as liquors); virtuous

Most common words with 腆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

腼腆

shy

腆

virtuous

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰˤə[n]ʔ

thenX

tiǎn

thick, ample


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4025th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+8146

Shuowen

“腆，設膳腆。腆，多也。从肉，典聲。，古文腆。”


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