xiàn
envy, desire
Depicts a person salivating (㳄) when seeing a tasty sheep (羊) that they have a desire to eat.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 羨
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to envy | ||
to envy | ||
to envy | ||
Ji Xianlin (1911-2009), Chinese linguist and Indologist | ||
to marvel at |
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