qián
act with reverence
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ra[n] | gjen | qián | kill; cut (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.3798% of movies
2731st most common character in movies
2832nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+8654 |
Shuowen | “虔，虎行皃。从虍，文聲。讀若矜。” |
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