Chinese Character Wiki

箝

qián

tweezers

Bamboo ⺮ used to grasp 拑 things; 拑 also provides the pronunciation

Components
⺮ meaning component

⺮  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

拑 sound,meaning component

拑  Sound Meaning component

qián

  

to clamp

Evolution

箝 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
箝 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

箝  

qián

tweezers, pliers, tongs, pincers; pliers; pincers; to clamp

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5385th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+7B9D

Shuowen

“箝，籋也。从竹，拑聲。”


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