shàn

abuse

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

Components
讠 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

is a component form of .

山 sound component

  Sound component

shān

  

mountain

Evolution

讪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
讪 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
讪 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

shàn

abuse, slander; vilify; ridicule; to mock; to ridicule; to slander

Most common words with 讪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

搭讪

to hit on someone

讪讪

embarrassed

讪笑

to ridicule

to mock

答讪

to hit on someone

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.5949% of movies

2863rd most common character in movies

3679th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Traditional

Unicode

U+8BAA


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