qiān
together
Depicts multiple people (人) opening their mouths (口) to speak together, representing the meaning "together" or "all".
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s.qʰ[a]m (dialect: *s.qʰ > MC tsh-) | tshjem | qiān | all; many |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5613th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+50C9 |
Shuowen | “僉，皆也。从亼，从吅，从从。” |
Sources
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