qiàn

beautiful

A young  person  also provides the pronunciation

Components

Meaning component
rén person
SoundMeaning component
qīng green or blue

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰleːns
sʰleŋs
Unicodetsiɛ̀ng

說文解字

人字。从人青聲。東齊壻謂之倩。

Sources

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