shà

feathers used decorate coffin

Evolution

翣 Bronze script Warring States (475-221 BC)

Bronze script

Warring States (475-221 BC)
翣 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
翣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

shà

feathers used decorate coffin; large wooden fan; wooden fan carried in procession

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s(ˤ)r[a]p

sraep

shà

plume-fan


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

8458th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+7FE3

Shuowen

“翣,棺羽飾也。天子八,諸侯六,大夫四,士二。下垂。从羽,妾聲。”


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