sūn

aromatic grass

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

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

孙 sound component

  Sound component

sūn

  

grandchild

Evolution

荪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
荪 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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sūn

aromatic grass; iris, flower; fragrant grass

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4051st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+836A


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