cān

two outside ones in three horse

Components

Meaning component
horse

horse

Sound component
cān, shēn take part in

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

two outside ones in three horse Traditional

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttshomm-sˤrum (should be *s.r̥ ˤum)team of three horses
Zhengzhangsʰluːm
Unicodetsom

說文解字

駕三馬也。从馬參聲。

Sources

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