shān

hair

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Pictograph of strands of hair.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartyuwngm.rum (dialect: *-um > *-uŋ)to sacrifice on a following day

說文解字

《說文》:“彡,毛飾畫文也。象形。”

Sources

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