jiān

annihilate

Components

Meaning component
dǎi, è, dāi evil, bad

death

Sound component
xiān wild onions or leeks

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangʔsem
Unicodetziɛm

說文解字

微盡也。从歺韱聲。《春秋傳》曰:“齊人殲于遂。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

jiān annihilate Simplified

A thousand  corpses  also provides the pronunciation

Components

Meaning component
dǎi, è, dāi evil, bad
SoundMeaning component
qiān thousand

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode