旃 — Chinese character
旃
zhān
felt; a silk banner on a bent pole
- Pinyin
- zhān
- Radical
- 70 ⽅ (Square)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 方 丹
- Formation
- pictophonetic — flag; meaning component 方; sound component 丹
- Japanese
- 旃 as a kanji
Common words with 旃
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 旃檀 | zhān tán | sandalwood (loanword from Sanskrit "candana") |
旃 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.