戩
jiǎn

exterminate

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangʔsenʔ

說文解字

滅也。从戈晉聲。《詩》曰:“實始戩商。”

Sources

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

戬 jiǎn exterminate Simplified

Components

晋
晋 Sound component
jìn advance
戈
戈 Meaning component
gē spear

spear

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode