diāo
marten
Phonosemantic compound. 豸 represents the meaning and 召 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 貂
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
sable or marten (genus Martes) | ||
Diaochan (-192), one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女[sìdàměinǚ], in fiction a famous beauty at the break-up of Han dynasty, given as concubine to usurping warlord Dong Zhuo 董卓[DǒngZhuó] to ensure his overthrow by fighting hero Lü Bu 呂布|吕布[LǚBù] | ||
mink fur | ||
mink (Mustela lutreola, M. vison) | ||
sable (Martes zibellina) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.0091% of movies
3226th most common character in movies
4306th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+8C82 |
Shuowen | “貂，鼠屬。大而黃黑，出胡丁零國。从豸，召聲。” |
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