shǎn
flash
Original meaning:
peek
Simplified form of 閃. Depicts a person (人) peeking through the space in the middle of a door (门). Based on the original meaning "peek". The meaning later shifted to "dodge" and "flash".
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 26.9422% of movies
1185th most common character in movies
1113th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+95EA |
Sources
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