Chinese Character Wiki

欿

kǎn

discontented

Components
臽 meaning component

臽  Meaning component

xiàn

  

a pit

pit

欠 sound component

欠  Sound component

qiàn

  

yawn, deficient

Evolution

欿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
欿 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
欿 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
欿 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

欿  

kǎn

discontented; sad; gloomy; discontented with oneself

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[kʰ]ˤomʔ

khomX

kǎn

insufficient

*[kʰ]ˤomʔ

khomX

kǎn

despondent

*[kʰ]ˤomʔ

khomX

kǎn

covet


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+6B3F

Shuowen

“欿，欲得也。从欠，臽聲。讀若貪。”


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