shān

a rank odor

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

meat

亶 sound component

  Sound component

dǎn

  

sincere

Evolution

膻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
膻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shān

a rank odor; a technical term from Chinese medicine for the center of the chest; rank odor (of sheep or goats)

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shān

a flock of sheep (or goats); old variant of [shān]; old variant of [shān]

Most common words with 膻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

old variant of 膻[shān]

如蚁附膻

the crowd runs after trash

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s.tan

syen

shān

smell of sheep


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5647th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+81BB

Shuowen

“膻,肉膻也。从肉,亶聲。《詩》曰:‘膻裼暴虎。’”


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