qiān

tally

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

bamboo

韱 sound component

  Sound component

xiān

  

wild onions or leeks

Evolution

籤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
籤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

qiān

tally; lot; marker

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qiān

inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc); small wood sliver; label; tag

Most common words with 籤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

label

签名

to autograph

签署

to sign (an agreement)

签订

to agree to and sign (a treaty etc)

签字

signature

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 39.3401% of movies

901st most common character in movies

1254th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Unicode

U+7C64

Shuowen

“籤,驗也。一曰銳也,貫也。从竹,韱聲。”


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