zhānshàn

sturgeon

Components
魚 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

fish

亶 sound component

  Sound component

dǎn

  

sincere

Evolution

鱣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鱣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鱣 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

zhān

sturgeon; sturgeon (old); Acipenser micadoi

() 

shàn

see |[shàn]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tra[n]

trjen

zhān

a kind of fish


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7781st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Simplified

Unicode

U+9C63

Shuowen

“鱣,鯉也。从魚,亶聲。,籀文鱣。”


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