Chinese Character Wiki
歉

qiàn

deficient

Phonosemantic compound. 欠 represents the meaning and 兼 represents the sound.

Components
兼 sound component

兼  Sound component

jiān

  

double

欠 meaning component

欠  Meaning component

qiàn

  

yawn, deficient

Evolution

歉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
歉 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
歉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

歉  

qiàn

deficient, lacking, insufficient; to apologize; to regret; deficient

Most common words with 歉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

抱歉

to be sorry

道歉

to apologize

歉意

apology

歉

to regret

致歉

to apologize

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʰˤremʔ-s

kheamH

qiàn

deficient, modest


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 85.8401% of movies

299th most common character in movies

2149th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+6B49

Shuowen

“歉，歉食不滿。从欠，兼聲。”


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