shān

coral

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
wáng king
Sound component
book

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangslaːn
Unicodesɑn

說文解字

珊瑚,色赤,生於海,或生於山。从玉,刪省聲。

Sources

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