cán

ashamed

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

Components
忄 meaning component

  Meaning component

xinxīn

  

heart

is a component form of .

斩 sound component

  Sound component

zhǎn

  

chop

Evolution

惭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
惭 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
惭 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
惭 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
惭 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

cán

ashamed, humiliated; shameful; ashamed

() 

cán

variant of |[cán]

Most common words with 惭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

惭愧

ashamed

ashamed

大言不惭

to talk big

自惭形秽

to feel inferior

羞惭

a disgrace

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.4828% of movies

2937th most common character in movies

2943rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+60ED


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