chān

flutter

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsyhem[tʰ]amapron; shake, move (skirts)
Zhengzhangtʰjam
tʰjams

說文解字

衣蔽前。从衣詹聲。

Sources

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