chán

cunning

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Two rabbit-like animals ( and ), alluding to the cunning of hares.

Components

Meaning component
chuò rabbit-like animal
Meaning component
rabbit

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangzrɯːm
zraːm

說文解字

《說文》:“毚,狡兔也,兔之駿者。从、兔。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica