jiǎn
alkaline
Phonosemantic compound. 鹵 represents the meaning and 僉 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鹼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
base | ||
choline (amine related to vitamin B complex) | ||
alkaline | ||
ephedrine | ||
alkaloid |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.5377% of movies
2972nd most common character in movies
2872nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 24 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9E7C |
Shuowen | “鹼,鹵也。从鹽省,僉聲。” |
Sources
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