shàn
support
Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 詹 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]am-s | dzyemH | shàn | sufficient |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.3295% of movies
3185th most common character in movies
3902nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8D0D |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“贍，給也。从貝，詹聲。” |
Sources
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