xiān

to whirl

Evolution

蹮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

xiān

to whirl, pirouette; old variant of |[xiān]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*sˤe[r]

sen

xiān

蹁蹮 walk with difficulty (Shuōwén)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Unicode

U+8E6E

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“蹮,蹁蹮,旋行。从足,聲。”


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