Chinese Character Wiki

繕

shàn

repair

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 善 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

善 sound component

善  Sound component

shàn

  

good

Evolution

繕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

缮 (繕) 

shàn

repair, mend; rewrite, transcribe; to repair; to mend; to rewrite; to transcribe

Most common words with 繕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

修缮

to renovate

缮

to repair

缮写

to copy

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]e[n]ʔ-s

dzyenH

shàn

(make good:) repair


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3981st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

缮

Unicode

U+7E55

Shuowen

“繕，補也。从糸，善聲。”


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