穿

chuān

wear

Original meaning: 

bore a hole

Alludes to creating a hole () with one's teeth (). Based on the original meaning "bore a hole". The meaning later expanded to "pass through" and "wear".

Components
穴 meaning component

  Meaning component

xué

  

cave

牙 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tooth

Evolution

穿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
穿 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
穿 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

穿  

chuān

penetrate, pierce, drill; wear; to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread

Most common words with 穿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

穿

to wear

穿过

to pass through

穿越

to pass through

穿上

to put on (clothes etc)

穿着

attire

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰo[n]

tsyhwen

chuān

bore through


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 77.7671% of movies

408th most common character in movies

785th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+7A7F

Shuowen

“穿,通也。从牙在穴中。”


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