chǎn
explain
Phonosemantic compound. 門 represents the meaning and 單 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 闡
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to expound (a position) | ||
to elucidate | ||
to explain | ||
to express | ||
to elucidate |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.3936% of movies
3299th most common character in movies
2197th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+95E1 |
Shuowen | “闡，開也。从門，單聲。《易》曰：‘闡幽。’” |
Sources
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