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簟

diàn

bamboo mat

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 覃 represents the sound.

Components
⺮ meaning component

⺮  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹.

覃 sound component

覃  Sound component

tán, qín

  

reach to

Evolution

簟 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
簟 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
簟 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
簟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
簟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

簟  

diàn

bamboo mat; fine woven grass mat

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[l]ˤimʔ

demX

diàn

bamboo mat


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5253rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Unicode

U+7C1F

Shuowen

“簟，竹席也。从竹，聲。”


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