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銜

xián

bit

Phonosemantic compound. 金 represents the meaning and 行 represents the sound.

Components
金 meaning component

金  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

行 sound component

行  Sound component

xíng, háng

  

walk

Evolution

銜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
銜 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
銜 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

衔 (銜) 

xián

bit; hold in mouth, bite; gag; bit (of a bridle); to hold in the mouth; to harbor (feelings); to link; to accept; rank; title

Most common words with 銜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

头衔

title

衔接

to combine

衔

to link

军衔

army rank

领衔

leading (role)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤr[a]m

haem

xián

a bit


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.3409% of movies

2500th most common character in movies

2328th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

衔

Unicode

U+929C

Shuowen

“銜，馬勒口中。从金，从行。銜，行馬者也。”


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