Chinese Character Wiki
段

duàn

section

Original meaning: 

forge metal

Pictograph of a hand holding a forging hammer (殳) and hitting a stone (石). Based on the original meaning "forge", now written as 鍛. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
石 iconic component

石  Iconic component

shí, dàn

  

stone

殳 iconic component

殳  Iconic component

shū

  

weapon or tool

Here depicts a hand holding a hammer.

Evolution

段 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
段 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
段 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

段  

duàn

section, piece, division; paragraph; section; segment; stage (of a process); classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc

段  

Duàn

surname Duan

Most common words with 段
Freq.
Word
Meaning

段

paragraph

阶段

stage

手段

method

片段

fragment (of speech etc)

时段

time interval

Component uses

Sound component in 6 characters (2 verified)

鍛 锻 緞 缎 椴 煅

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tˤo[n]-s

twanH

duàn

hammer


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 65.1770% of movies

655th most common character in movies

567th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6BB5

Shuowen

“段，椎物也。从殳，耑省聲。”


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