diān

Yunnan province

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

真 sound component

  Sound component

zhēn

  

real

Evolution

滇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
滇 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
滇 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
滇 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

diān

Yunnan province

 

Diān

abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南|云南[Yún​nán] in southwest China

Most common words with 滇
Freq.
Word
Meaning

abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南|云南[Yún​nán] in southwest China

滇池

lake Dianchi in Yunnan

滇东

east Yunnan

滇红

Dian Hong tea

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3534th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+6EC7

Shuowen

“滇,益州池名。从水,真聲。”


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