sǎn, xiàn
hail
Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 散 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*sˤ[e]r-s | senH | xiàn | sleet |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4723rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Unicode | U+9730 |
Shuowen | “，稷雪也。” |
Sources
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