sǎn

fried round cakes of wheat flour

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
飠 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

is a component form of .

散 sound component

  Sound component

sànsǎn

  

scatter

Evolution

饊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
饊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

sǎn

fried round cakes of wheat flour; see 饊子|馓子[sǎn​zi]

Most common words with 饊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

deep-fried noodle cake

馓子

deep-fried noodle cake

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5269th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

Unicode

U+994A

Shuowen

“饊,熬稻粻也。从食,散聲。”


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