cān
eat
Phonosemantic compound. 食 represents the meaning and 𣦼 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 57.1360% of movies
619th most common character in movies
1465th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+9910 |
Shuowen | “餐，吞也。从食，聲。湌，餐或从水。” |
Sources
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