zàn

temporary

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

Components
斩 sound component

  Sound component

zhǎn

  

chop

日 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sun

Evolution

暂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
暂 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
暂 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

zàn

temporary; Taiwan pr. [zhàn]

() 

zàn

to scurry; variant of |[zàn]

Most common words with 暂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

暂时

temporary

暂停

to suspend

短暂

brief

temporary

暂行

provisional

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 28.1595% of movies

1349th most common character in movies

1325th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+6682


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