zhān
talk too much
Phonosemantic compound. 厃 represents the sound while 八 (eight) and 言 (speech) represent the meaning.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 詹
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
James (name) | ||
excellent | ||
Johnson | ||
Zhan Tianyou (1861-1919), Chinese railroad engineer |
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[t]am | tsyem | zhān | garrulous |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.2790% of movies
1535th most common character in movies
2533rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+8A79 |
Shuowen | “詹,多言也。从言,从八,从厃。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.83-84
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