犍
jiānqián

a bullock

Components

牛
牛 Meaning component
niú cow

ox

建
建 Sound component
jiàn build

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡran
kan

說文解字

犗牛也。从牛建聲。亦郡名。

Sources

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