qiān
lead (metal)
Phonosemantic compound. 金 represents the meaning and 㕣 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鉛
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
lead (chemistry) | ||
(lead) pencil | ||
shot put (athletics event) | ||
pencil case | ||
type |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.7413% of movies
2423rd most common character in movies
2641st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+925B |
Shuowen | “鉛,青金也。从金,聲。” |
Sources
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