Unicode: U+5C18

Pinyin: chén

Definition

* 飞扬的灰土。 ~土。~埃。~垢。~芥(尘土和小草,喻轻微的事物)。粉~。烟~。甚嚣~上。望~莫及。 * 佛家、道家指人间。 红~。~世

dust, dirt, ashes, cinders

Structure

尘 graph

Related substructures

Precursors

Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
27_E84A27_E84B
Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
84_E29784_E29884_E29984_E29A84_E29B84_E29C84_E29D84_E29E84_E29F84_E2A084_E2A1

Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC