liǎn, liàn
draw back
Phonosemantic compound. 攵 represents the meaning and 佥 represents the sound. Simplified form of 斂.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 敛
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to dwindle | ||
to hold back | ||
to accumulate wealth | ||
to accumulate | ||
astringent |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.6178% of movies
3222nd most common character in movies
2925th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+655B |
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