zān

hairpin

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

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of .

朁 sound component

  Sound component

cǎn

  

if

Evolution

簪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
簪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
簪 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
簪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

zān

hairpin, clasp; wear in hair; hairpin

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zān

old variant of [zān]

Most common words with 簪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

hairpin

发簪

hairpin

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.tsˤ[ə]m

tsom

zān

hairpin

*tsr[ə]m

tsrim

zān

hairpin


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4297th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Unicode

U+7C2A

Shuowen

“兂,首筓也。从人、匕,象簪形。簪,俗兂。从竹,从朁。”


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