xiàn
submerge
Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 臽 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
xiàn
submerge, sink, plunge; trap; pitfall; to get stuck; to sink; to cave in; to frame (false charge); to capture (a city in battle); to fall (to the enemy); defect
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ˤromʔ-s | heamH | xiàn | fall into a pit |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 30.9787% of movies
1236th most common character in movies
1262nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+9677 |
Shuowen | “陷,高下也。一曰陊也。从,从臽,臽亦聲。” |
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