sān

three

Evolution

弎 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
弎 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
弎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
弎 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

sān

three; archaic variant of |, banker's anti-fraud numeral three

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+5F0E

Shuowen

“三,天地人之道也。从三數。弎,古文三从弋。”


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