chén

dust

Dust  kicked up by a fleeing deer 鹿

Components
鹿 meaning component

鹿  Meaning component

  

deer

土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

Evolution

塵 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
塵 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
塵 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

chén

dust, dirt, ashes, cinders; dust; dirt; earth

Most common words with 塵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

dust

灰尘

dust

尘土

dust

吸尘器

vacuum cleaner

沙尘

airborne sand and dust

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]rə[n]

drin

chén

dust (n.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.1233% of movies

1957th most common character in movies

1718th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+5875

Shuowen

“,鹿行揚土也。从麤,从土。”


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