dàn
birth
Original meaning:
tell false words
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 延 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "tell false words". The meaning later shifted to "boast", "increase", and "give birth".
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 誕
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
Christmas | ||
Christmas time | ||
to be born | ||
Father Christmas | ||
Christmas tree |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 20.5030% of movies
943rd most common character in movies
1997th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8A95 |
Shuowen | “誕，詞誕也。从言，延聲。，籀文省。” |
Sources
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