shān

shirt

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
衤 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

clothes

is a component form of .

彡 sound component

  Sound component

shān

  

hair

Evolution

衫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
衫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shān

shirt; robe; gown; jacket; garment; jacket with open slits in place of sleeves

Most common words with 衫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

衬衫

shirt

garment

运动衫

sports shirt

衣衫

clothing

恤衫

shirt (loanword)

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 14.3681% of movies

1731st most common character in movies

2153rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+886B

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“衫,衣也。从衣,彡聲。”


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