shǎn
mountain pass
A place 阝 wedged in a valley 夹
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 陕
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
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Shaanxi province (Shensi) in northwest China, abbr. 陝|陕[Shǎn], capital Xi’an 西安市[Xī'ānShì] | ||
Shaanxi Province (Shensi) in northwest China, abbr. 陝|陕[Shǎn], capital Xi'an 西安[Xī'ān] | ||
abbr. for Shaanxi 陝西|陕西 province | ||
Shanbei, northern Shaanxi province, including Yulin 榆林 and Yan'an 延安, a Holy Land of Mao's revolution 革命聖地|革命圣地 | ||
Shannan, southern Shaanxi province |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2159th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9655 |
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