椽
chuán

beams

Components

木
木 Meaning component
mù tree

wood

彖
彖 Sound component
tuàn, shǐ a hog

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdrjwenlronbeam, rafter
Zhengzhangl'on
Unicodedjhiuɛn

說文解字

榱也。从木彖聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)