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jiǎn HSK7

choose

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approved by Peter Olson · Sep 1, 2021, 09:11 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Sep 1, 2021, 09:11 PM

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Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 柬 represents the sound.

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

柬
柬 Sound component
jiǎn letter

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkeanXkˤr[a]nʔ select

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart