shàn
meals
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 善 represents the sound. Simplified form of 饍.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
3300th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+81B3 |
Shuowen | “膳，具食也。从肉，善聲。” |
Sources
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