孱 chán

1. chán adjective weak; unfit; frail; feeble
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 虚弱; as in 孱弱 (CCD '孱' chán, p. 210; FE '孱' chán, p. 311; Guoyu '孱' adj 2; Unihan '孱'; XHZD '孱' chán, p. 73)
2. càn adjective embarrassed
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Mathews 1931 '孱', p 18)
3. càn adjective weak; unfit; frail; feeble
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Same in meaning as when pronounced as chán (CCD '孱' càn, p. 188; Unihan '孱'; XHZD '孱' càn, p. 65)
4. chán adjective arrow
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 狭窄 (Guoyu '孱' adj 1)
5. chán adjective inferior; substandard
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 低劣 (Guoyu '孱' adj 3)
6. chán adverb cautiously; prudently
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 谨慎 (Guoyu '孱' adv)
7. càn noun a weakling; a coward
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 孱头 (Guoyu '孱' càn)

Contained in

• 孱弱 weak; frail; feeble
• 孱商 a weak merchant

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Truncated for common words

• 卷四十 志第二十: 地理三 Volume 40 Treatises 20: Geography 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 5
• 卷一百四十七　列傳第三十四: 張柔 史天倪 史天祥 Volume 147 Biographies 34: Zhang Rou, Shi Tianni, Shi Tianxiang History of Yuan 元史 — count: 3
• 卷八十六　　　　列傳第十一 薛李二劉高徐 Volume 86 Biographies 11: Xue, Li, Er, Liu Gao, Xu New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 2
• 卷一百三十八 列傳第八十八: 趙憬 韋倫 賈耽 姜公輔 Volume 138 Biographies 88: Zhao Jing, Wei Lun, Jia Dan, Jiang Gongfu Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 2
• 卷31　志第26 地理下 Volume 31 Treatises 26: Geography 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 2
• 外儲說左下第三十三 Chapter 33: A Collection of Sayings IV Han Feizi 韓非子 — count: 2
• 卷四十 雜傳第二十八: 李茂貞 韓建 李仁福 韓遜 楊崇本 高萬興 溫韜 Volume 40 Miscellaneous Biographies 20: Li Maozhen, han Jian, Li Renfu, Han Xun, Yang Chongben, Gao Wanxing, Wen Tao New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史 — count: 2
• 卷一百七十七 列傳第一百二十七: 崔慎由 崔珙 盧鈞 裴休 楊收 韋保衡 路巖 夏侯孜 劉瞻 劉瑑 曹確 畢諴 杜審權 劉鄴 豆盧瑑 Volume 177 Biographies 127: Cui Shenyou, Cui Gong, Lu Jun, Pei Xiu, Yang Shou, Wei Baoheng, Lu Yan, Xiao Houzi, Liu Zhan, Liu Zhuan, Cao Que, Bi Xian, Du Shenquan, Liu Ye, Dou Luzhan Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 2
• 《卷十二‧水部》 Scroll 12, Shuǐ Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 2
• 卷三百七十一 列傳第一百三十 白時中 徐處仁 馮澥 王倫 宇文虛中 湯思退 Volume 371 Biographies 130: Bai Shizhong, Xu Churen, Feng Xie, Wang Lun, Yu Wenxuzhong, Tang Situi History of Song 宋史 — count: 2

Collocations

• 孱陵 (孱陵) 孱陵 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十八上 地理志 Volume 28a: Treatise on Geography 1 — count: 21
• 孱陵县 (孱陵縣) 於漢武陵郡孱陵縣界上明地僑立河東郡 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十四 志第四 地理上 Volume 14 Treatises 4: Geography Part One — count: 7
• 孱孱 (孱孱) 朕不能孱孱度日 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷一百七十七 列傳第一百二十七: 崔慎由 崔珙 盧鈞 裴休 楊收 韋保衡 路巖 夏侯孜 劉瞻 劉瑑 曹確 畢諴 杜審權 劉鄴 豆盧瑑 Volume 177 Biographies 127: Cui Shenyou, Cui Gong, Lu Jun, Pei Xiu, Yang Shou, Wei Baoheng, Lu Yan, Xiao Houzi, Liu Zhan, Liu Zhuan, Cao Que, Bi Xian, Du Shenquan, Liu Ye, Dou Luzhan — count: 4
• 孱王 (孱王) 吾王孱王也 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《張耳陳餘列傳》 Biographies of Zhang Er and Chen Yu — count: 4
• 孱昏 (孱昏) 帝孱昏 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷一百二十　　　列傳第四十五　　　　五王 Volume 120 Biographies 45: Five Kings — count: 3
• 省孱 (省孱) 開皇九年省孱陵 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷31　志第26 地理下 Volume 31 Treatises 26: Geography 3 — count: 3
• 孱赤 (孱赤) 燕帥孱赤台數凌柔 — History of Yuan 元史, 卷一百四十七　列傳第三十四: 張柔 史天倪 史天祥 Volume 147 Biographies 34: Zhang Rou, Shi Tianni, Shi Tianxiang — count: 3
• 孱声 (孱聲) 从水孱聲 — Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字, 《卷十二‧水部》 Scroll 12, Shuǐ Radical — count: 2
• 汉孱 (漢孱) 華容漢孱陵縣地 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷四十 志第二十: 地理三 Volume 40 Treatises 20: Geography 3 — count: 2
• 孱小 (孱小) 豈宜妄散惠孱小乎 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷八十六　　　　列傳第十一 薛李二劉高徐 Volume 86 Biographies 11: Xue, Li, Er, Liu Gao, Xu — count: 2