This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

Difficult 难 waters 氵 to navigate; 难 also provides the pronunciation

  • 滩 rapids; sandbar, shoal tān
    • 氵 water shuǐ
    • 难 hard, difficult, arduous; unable nán
      • 又 and, also, again, in addition yòu
      • 隹 short-tailed bird; sparrow zhuī

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