傻shǎ

傻

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Modern simplified form (簡體). 傻 (shǎ, "foolish, silly") appears in both simplified and traditional scripts unchanged. The character combines the person radical 亻 with 夋 (qūn), originally meaning "to delay" or "slow-witted" — together they depict a person who is mentally slow or dull, capturing the essence of foolishness in visual form.

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Shuowen

傻 is a later character not found in oracle bone inscriptions, formed by combining the human radical 亻 with the component 夋 on the right; 夋 originally depicted a slow, crawling motion and carried the sense of being dull or sluggish. When paired with the human radical, the combination came to denote a person whose mental faculties are slow, i.e., a fool or simpleton. The written form therefore visually represents a person (亻) with a dull (夋) nature, capturing the meaning of “stupid” or “foolish.”

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shǎ· HSK 1

傻shǎ

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