zuān, zuàn
drill
Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 贊 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ˤor | tswan | zuān | perforate, penetrate |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 15.2010% of movies
1399th most common character in movies
1724th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 27 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+947D |
Shuowen | “鑽,所以穿也。从金,贊聲。” |
Sources
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