Chinese Character Wiki

顫

chàn

shiver

Components
亶 sound component

亶  Sound component

dǎn

  

sincere

頁 meaning component

頁  Meaning component

yè, xié

  

(head), page

leaf

Evolution

顫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
顫 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
顫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

颤 (顫) 

chàn

shiver, tremble; trembling; to tremble; to shiver; to shake; to vibrate; Taiwan pr. [zhàn]

Most common words with 顫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

颤抖

to shudder

颤

to tremble

颤动

to tremble

震颤

to tremble

颤栗

to tremble

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.5262% of movies

2412th most common character in movies

1900th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

22

Simplified

颤

Unicode

U+986B

Shuowen

“顫、頭不正也。从頁，亶聲。”


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