chán

a store

Components

广
广 Meaning component
guǎng roof

building

Iconic component
lǐ, li village
Iconic component
eight
Iconic component
earth

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdrjen[d]ra[n] farmyard

說文解字

《說文》:“廛,一畝半,一家之居,从广、里、八、土。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica