qiànkǎn

inlay

Components
山 meaning component

  Meaning component

shān

  

mountain

mountain

甘 unknown component

  Unknown component

gān

  

sweetness

欠 sound component

  Sound component

qiàn

  

yawn, deficient

Evolution

嵌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嵌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

qiàn

inlay, set in; fall into; rugged; to inlay; to embed; Taiwan pr. [qiān]

 

kǎn

see 赤嵌樓|赤嵌楼[Chì​kǎn​lóu]

Most common words with 嵌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to inlay

镶嵌

to inlay

嵌入

to insert

嵌套

nested

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.0823% of movies

3030th most common character in movies

2831st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+5D4C

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“嵌,山深皃。从山,歁省聲。”


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