秅
cháná

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdræ[d]ˤraa certain number of sheaves of grain
Zhengzhangr'aː
ʔl'aːɡs

說文解字

二秭爲秅。从禾乇聲。《周禮》曰：“二百四十斤爲秉。四秉曰筥，十筥曰稯，十稯曰秅，四百秉爲一秅。”

Sources

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