gàn

dark blue or reddish color

Components
纟 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

silk

甘 sound component

  Sound component

gān

  

sweetness

Evolution

绀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
绀 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
绀 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

gàn

dark blue or reddish color; violet or purple

Most common words with 绀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

violet or purple

发绀

cyanosis (blue skin due to lack of oxygen in blood)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5122nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+7EC0


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