Chinese Character Wiki

竄

cuàn

run away

Depicts a mouse (鼠) scurrying out of a hole (穴).

Components
穴 meaning component

穴  Meaning component

xué

  

cave

鼠 meaning component

鼠  Meaning component

shǔ

  

rat

Evolution

竄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
竄 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
竄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

窜 (竄) 

cuàn

run away; revise, edit; expel; to flee; to scuttle; to exile or banish; to amend or edit

Most common words with 竄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

窜

to flee

逃窜

to run away

流窜

to infiltrate

窜逃

to scurry off

窜改

to alter

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

躥 攛

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[tsʰ]ˤo[n]-s

tshwanH

cuàn

hide; flee


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.6590% of movies

2887th most common character in movies

2461st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

窜

Unicode

U+7AC4

Shuowen

“竄，墜也。从鼠在穴中。”


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