Chinese Character Wiki

讖

chèn

prophecy

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

speech

韱 sound component

韱  Sound component

xiān

  

wild onions or leeks

Evolution

讖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
讖 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
讖 Seal script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Seal script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
讖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

谶 (讖) 

chèn

prophecy, hint, omen; prophecy; omen

Most common words with 讖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

谶

omen

谶纬

divination combined with mystical Confucian philosopy, prevalent during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220)

谶语

prophecy

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4762nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Simplified

谶

Unicode

U+8B96

Shuowen

“讖，驗也。从言，韱聲。”


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