qiān
humble
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 兼 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k-r̥ˤem | khem | qiān | modest |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.7733% of movies
2504th most common character in movies
2345th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8B19 |
Shuowen | “謙，敬也。从言，兼聲。” |
Sources
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