chēn

a sailing boat

Evolution

䑣 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
䑣 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
䑣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

chēn

a sailing boat

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m.rum (dialect: > *-um > *-uŋ)

yuwng

róng

sacrifice on the following day


Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+4463

Shuowen

“,船行也。从舟,彡聲。”


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