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殘

cán

injure

Phonosemantic compound. 歹 represents the meaning and 戔 represents the sound.

Components
歹 meaning component

歹  Meaning component

dǎi

  

corpse, carcass

戔 sound component

戔  Sound component

jiān

  

small

Evolution

殘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
殘 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

残 (殘) 

cán

injure, spoil; oppress; broken; to destroy; to spoil; to ruin; to injure; cruel; oppressive; savage; brutal; incomplete; disabled; to remain; to survive; remnant; surplus

Most common words with 殘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

残

to destroy

残忍

cruel

残酷

cruel

残疾人

disabled person

残留

to remain

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz]ˤa[n]

dzan

cán

damage; hurt; cruel


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 33.1091% of movies

1186th most common character in movies

1150th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

残

Unicode

U+6B98

Shuowen

“殘，賊也。从歺，戔聲。”


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