qiàn

wooden tablet

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangzaːmʔ
sʰam
sʰams
zamʔ

說文解字

牘樸也。从木斬聲。

Sources

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

qiàn wooden tablet Simplified

Components

Sound component
zhǎn, zhàn chop
Meaning component
tree

wood

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode