ān

graphic variant of 鞍[ān]

Evolution

鞌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

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ān

graphic variant of [ān]

Most common words with 鞌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

马鞍

saddle

graphic variant of 鞍[ān]

鞍山

Anshan prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 in northeast China

鞍马

pommel horse (gymnastics)

鞍山市

Anshan prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省 in northeast China

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ʔ]ˤa[n]

'an

ān

[place name]


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.9771% of movies

3309th most common character in movies

3168th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+978C

Shuowen

“鞌,馬鞁具也。从革,从安。”


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