jiǎn
to pick up
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 僉 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 10.2034% of movies
1997th most common character in movies
2753rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+64BF |
Shuowen | “撿,拱也。从手,僉聲。” |
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