zhān

silk banner with bent pole

Depicts a type of ancient flag () that was colored red () and had a bent pole.

Components
㫃 meaning component

  Meaning component

yǎn

  

flags flying

丹 meaning component

  Meaning component

dān

  

cinnabar (native HgS)

Evolution

旃 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
旃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

zhān

silk banner with bent pole; felt; silken banner

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5181st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+65C3

Shuowen

“旃,旗曲柄也,所以旃表士眾。从,丹聲。《周禮》曰:‘通帛為旃。’旜,旃或从亶。”


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