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端

duān

end, hold with both hands

Phonosemantic compound. 立 represents the meaning and 耑 represents the sound.

Components
立 meaning component

立  Meaning component

lì

  

stand

耑 sound component

耑  Sound component

duān, zhuān

  

tip, start, extremity

Evolution

端 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

端  

duān

end, extreme; head; beginning; end; extremity; item; port; to hold sth level with both hands; to carry; regular

端 (耑) 

duān

old variant of 端[duān]; start; origin

Most common words with 端
Freq.
Word
Meaning

端

end

极端

extreme

终端

end

开端

start

顶端

summit

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tˤor

twan

duān

tip (n.)


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 23.0178% of movies

1475th most common character in movies

916th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+7AEF

Shuowen

“端，直也。从立，耑聲。”


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