掀 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

xiān

lift

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 欣 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

欣 Sound component

xīn

happy, joyous

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

xiān

lift, raise; stir; to lift (a lid); to rock; to convulse

Most common words with 掀

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.0594% of movies

2802nd most common character in movies

2468th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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