zài​qiān

promote again

zài again

Depicts catching two () fish at once, conveying the meaning "again". The fish component is similar to the bottom half of .

Components

Meaning component
èr two
Iconic component
characterless component

Depicts a fish. Similar to .

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsojH[ts]ˤə(ʔ)-s twice; a second time

說文解字

《說文》:“再,一舉而二也。从冓省。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.315-316Wiktionary
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

qiān move Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components

Meaning component
chuò walk

is a component form of .

Sound component
qiān thousand

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsn̥ʰiːn

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang

qiān move, shift Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 𠨧 represents the sound and represents the meaning.

Components

Meaning component
chuò walk

is a component form of .

𠨧
𠨧 Sound component
qiān ascend
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 𠨧 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1 of 2 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttshjen[tsʰ]ar move (v.)

說文解字

登也。从辵𠨧聲。

Sources

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