shān

slander

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

册 sound component

  Sound component

  

book

Evolution

姗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
姗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

shān

slander; ridicule; proceed slowly; to deprecate; lithe (of a woman's walk); leisurely; slow

Most common words with 姗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

slow

姗姗

unhurried

姗姗来迟

to be late

罗姗

Roxanne or Roxane or Rosanna (name)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.4325% of movies

3198th most common character in movies

3883rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+59D7

Shuowen

“姍,誹也。一曰翼便也。从女,刪省聲。”


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