qiān

raise

A soldier  mounting a horse 

Components
宀 meaning component

  Meaning component

mián

  

roof

馬 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

Evolution

騫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
騫 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
騫 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
騫 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
騫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

qiān

raise, hold high; fly, soar; defective; raise

Most common words with 騫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

raise

张骞

Zhang Qian (-114 BC), Han dynasty explorer of 2nd century BC

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4815th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

Unicode

U+9A2B

Shuowen

“騫,馬腹縶也。从馬,寒省聲。”


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