shān

rush or straw matting

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

grass

Sound component
zhàn divine

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsyems.temthatch
syemHs-tem-sthatch
Zhengzhanghljem
hljems

說文解字

蓋也。从艸占聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica