xiǎn

a variety of bivalves

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Jin 266-420 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰeːns
qʰeːnʔ
ɡeːnʔ

說文解字

縊女也。从虫見聲。

Sources

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

xiǎn, xiàn a variety of bivalves Simplified

Components

Meaning component
chóng bug, insect

mollusk

Sound component
jiàn, xiàn, jian see

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode