suàn

an ancient device for working with numbers

Evolution

筭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
筭 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
Definitions

 

suàn

an ancient device for working with numbers; count, calculate, figure; to regard as; to figure

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

8448th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+7B6D

Shuowen

“筭,長六寸,計歷數者。从竹,从弄。言常弄乃不誤也。”


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