chuàn

string

Pictograph of two objects on a skewer or strung together.

Evolution

串 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
串 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
串 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
串 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

chuàn

string; relatives; conspire; to string together; to skewer; to connect wrongly; to gang up; to rove; bunch; skewer; classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of; to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus); to move across

Most common words with 串
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to skewer

一连串

a succession of

客串

to substitute for

串通

to collude

串门

to call on sb

Component uses

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