shān
rush or straw matting
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s.tem | syem | shān | thatch |
*s-tem-s | syemH | shàn | thatch |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4623rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+82EB |
Shuowen | “苫，蓋也。从艸，占聲。” |
Sources
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