qiǎn

attached to

Components

Meaning component
silk

thread

Sound component
qiǎn send

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰenʔ
kʰens

說文解字

繾綣,不相離也。从糸遣聲。

Sources

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

qiǎn attached to Simplified

Components

Meaning component
silk

thread

Sound component
qiǎn send

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode