shǎn
flash
Original meaning:
peek
Depicts a person (人) peeking through the space in the middle of a door (門). Based on the original meaning "peek". The meaning later shifted to "dodge" and "flash".
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 26.9422% of movies
1185th most common character in movies
1113th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9583 |
Shuowen | “閃,闚頭門中也。从人在門中。” |
Sources
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