diān, tiǎn
to fall forwards
Depicts a person falling down. Upside-down 人. Original form of 顛 and ancient variant of 殄.
Definitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]ˤə[n]ʔ | denX | tiǎn | cease; destroy |
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 2 |
Unicode | U+20088 |
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