shàn

meals

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

善 sound component

  Sound component

shàn

  

good

Evolution

膳 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
膳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
膳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shàn

meals, provisions, board; meals

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shàn

variant of [shàn]

Most common words with 膳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

膳食

meal

meals

用膳

to dine

药膳

medicinal cuisine

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3300th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+81B3

Shuowen

“膳,具食也。从肉,善聲。”


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