Chinese character 𪮃

It has several older Chinese action senses. Dictionaries record 㨻 with readings such as cán, shǎn, and zàn: “cut and take,” “act in sequence,” “strike,” “raise,” and “throw” are among its glosses. Read the source and sentence before choosing one.

Why do dictionaries give different senses?

They preserve different readings and editorial interpretations. The older form 㨻 is built from 手, the hand element, and 斬, which supplies the sound. The Taiwanese Ministry of Education's variant dictionary says 㨻 is not itself a headword in the Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, but discusses a related hand character glossed “temporary.” Qing-era commentator Duan Yucai argued that the text should read “cut and take.” A later dictionary, the Yupian, gives that gloss directly; the “in sequence” sense is linked to 摲 in the Book of Rites, a text on ritual practice.