ān
saddle
Phonosemantic compound. 革 represents the meaning and 安 represents the sound. Simplified form of 鞌.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鞍
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
saddle | ||
graphic variant of 鞍[ān] | ||
Anshan prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 in northeast China | ||
pommel horse (gymnastics) | ||
Anshan prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 in northeast China |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ʔ]ˤa[n] | 'an | ān | [place name] |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.9771% of movies
3309th most common character in movies
3168th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+978D |
Shuowen | “鞌,馬鞁具也。从革,从安。” |
Sources
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