shàn

district in Gansu during the Tang dynasty

Components

Sound component
shàn good
Meaning component
hill, place

place

Character Evolution

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

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangdjenʔ
djens

說文解字

鄯善,西胡國也。从邑从善,善亦聲。

Sources

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