chēng, chèn
pick up
Depicts a hand (爫) grabbing a fish (魚).
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Meaning component in 1 character (1 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+722F |
Shuowen | “爯,并舉也。从爪,冓省。” |
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