臤

to gouge out an eye

Depicts a hand (又) gouging an eye (臣).

Components

臣
臣 Iconic component
chén minister

Depicts an eye.

又
又 Iconic component
yòu hand

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (2 of 4 verified)

腎緊賢堅

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

豎

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰaːn
kʰriːn
ɡiːn
kʰins

說文解字

《說文》：“臤，堅也。从又，臣聲。讀若‘鏗鏘’之‘鏗’。古文以為賢字。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.223-224
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

𰀡 qiān to gouge out an eye Simplified

𰀡 is a simplified component form of 臤, which depicts a hand (又) gouging an eye (臣).

Components

臣
臣 IconicSimplified component
chén minister

Depicts an eye.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 臣 than it was in ancient scripts.
又
又 Iconic component
yòu hand

Component uses

Sound (2)

紧坚

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

竖

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.223-224
Readings & variants
Unicode