shāndàn

a rank odor

Components

Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

meat

Sound component
dǎn, dàn, chán sincere

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsyens.tansmell of sheep
Zhengzhangdaːnʔ

說文解字

肉膻也。从肉亶聲。《詩》曰:“膻裼暴虎。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica