Chinese Character Wiki

潺

chán

sound of flowing water

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

water

孱 sound component

孱  Sound component

càn, chán

  

weak

Evolution

潺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
潺 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

潺  

chán

sound of flowing water; flow; trickle (of water)

Most common words with 潺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

潺潺

murmur

潺

flow

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4033rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+6F7A

Shuowen

《說文新附》：“潺，水聲。从水，孱聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License