Chinese Character Wiki

椽

chuán

beams

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

wood

彖 sound component

彖  Sound component

tuàn

  

a hog

Evolution

椽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
椽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

椽  

chuán

beams, rafters, supports; beam; rafter; classifier for rooms

Most common words with 椽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

椽

beam

椽子

beam

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lron

drjwen

chuán

beam, rafter


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4405th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+693D

Shuowen

“椽，榱也。从木，彖聲。”


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