zàn

ceremonial libation cup

Evolution

瓚 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
瓚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瓚 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

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zàn

ceremonial libation cup; libation cup

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4011th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Simplified

Unicode

U+74DA

Shuowen

“瓚,三玉、二石也。从玉,贊聲。《禮》:‘天子用全,純玉也;上公用駹,四玉、一石;侯用瓚;伯用埒,玉、石半相埒也。’”


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