jiān

to exterminate

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Pictograph of an agricultural tool with a blade.

Components

Iconic component
cóng, cōng from

Depicts two people.

Iconic component
spear

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 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
Regular Modern

說文解字

《說文》:“,絕也。一曰田器。从从持戈。古文讀若咸,讀若《詩》云:‘攕攕女手。’”

Sources

Character origin
說文
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Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica