dān
county in Hebei province
Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 單 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鄲
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to copy the way they walk in Handan (idiom) | ||
also Handan county | ||
Handan prefecture-level city in Hebei | ||
Dancheng county in Zhoukou 周口[Zhōukǒu], Henan | ||
name of a district in Hebei |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tˤa[r] | tan | dān | 邯鄲 han.tan place name |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4045th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9132 |
Shuowen | “鄲，邯鄲縣。从邑，單聲。” |
Sources
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