chèn

prophecy

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

speech

韱 sound component

  Sound component

xiān

  

wild onions or leeks

Evolution

讖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
讖 Seal script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Seal script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
讖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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chèn

prophecy, hint, omen; prophecy; omen

Most common words with 讖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

omen

谶纬

divination combined with mystical Confucian philosopy, prevalent during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220)

谶语

prophecy

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4762nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Simplified

Unicode

U+8B96

Shuowen

“讖,驗也。从言,韱聲。”


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