旃 zhān silk banner with bent pole Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 旃 zhān [combined particle] (literary) A combination of the words 之 zhī and 焉 yān used to represent an object or person while also adding a tone of emphasis to the sentence. banner (literary) A type of ancient flag with a curved staff; used generally to refer to flags or banners. felt (literary) type of heavy non-woven cloth made of wool Zhan (proper noun) A Chinese surname. sandalwood (literary) sandalwood, as in the word 旃檀 zhāntán Cross-References Same as 之 zhī焉 yān Frequency Character Written text 5,181st most common 0.796 per million Word Written text 1.30 per million Details Strokes 10 Unicode U+65C3 Sources Frequency data MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)
旃 zhān [combined particle] (literary) A combination of the words 之 zhī and 焉 yān used to represent an object or person while also adding a tone of emphasis to the sentence. banner (literary) A type of ancient flag with a curved staff; used generally to refer to flags or banners. felt (literary) type of heavy non-woven cloth made of wool Zhan (proper noun) A Chinese surname. sandalwood (literary) sandalwood, as in the word 旃檀 zhāntán
