jiān
wicked
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 干 represents the sound. Simplified form of 姦.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 奸
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to rape | ||
wicked | ||
traitor (to China) | ||
undiscovered traitor | ||
rapist |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤa[r] | kan | gān | treacherous |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 12.7182% of movies
1549th most common character in movies
1992nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5978 |
Shuowen | “奸，犯婬也。从女，从干，干亦聲。” |
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