cān

two outside ones in three horse

Evolution

驂 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
驂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
驂 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

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cān

two outside ones in three horse; outside horses of a team of 4

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-sˤrum (should be *s.r̥ˤum)

tshom

cān

team of three horses


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6338th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

Unicode

U+9A42

Shuowen

“驂,駕三馬也。从馬,參聲。”


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