一切經音義 86.130

86.130

孱然（棧閑反韋昭注史記云孱仁謹貌也說文亦謹也從尸孨聲或從三子作孨音同）。

Humble and deferential 孱然 (pronounced with the fanqie 棧 + 閑; Wei Zhao's commentary on the Records of the Grand Historian says: "Chan is the appearance of humaneness and deference." The Shuowen jiezi also says it means deferential; it takes the corpse radical 尸 and the phonetic 孨; it is also written with three sons as 孨 with the same pronunciation).