膻 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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shān

a rank odor

Components

⺼ Meaning component

ròu

meat, flesh

meat

亶 Sound component

dǎn

sincere

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

shān

a rank odor; a technical term from Chinese medicine for the center of the chest; rank odor (of sheep or goats)

shān

a flock of sheep (or goats); old variant of 膻[shān]; old variant of 羶[shān]

Most common words with 膻

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	膻	old variant of 膻[shān]
	如蚁附膻	the crowd runs after trash

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

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