竄

• Fleeing by scurrying or slinking into a hiding place, emphasizing the act of disappearing into an obscure space to avoid capture.
• Being driven out or cast into exile, often referring to the resulting state of marginalization.
• The insertion of unauthorized words or phrases into a text (interpolation).

• Verb of motion: describes movement either away from a known location (fleeing) or into a gap/space (interpolating).

• Contrast with 逃 (general flight): 竄 emphasizes the act of disappearing into a hiding place and carries nuances of desperation, secrecy, or illicit movement.
• Contrast with 隱 (hiding): While 隱 can be noble or natural, 竄 is typically frantic or illicit.
• Connotation: Generally negative; suggests actions that are dishonest, unstable, or "under the table."

// Tang-period reading: //tsuɑ̀n.

• Simplified variant: U+7A9C.

• When encountering this glyph in philological contexts, be cautious with the gloss "edit" or "revise." It rarely denotes neutral editing and almost always implies tampering (竄改)—the insertion of foreign material to alter meaning or conceal truth.