Read Edit View history 县 xiàn HSK4 county Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents ← Back to history approved by Peter Olson · Dec 24, 2021, 06:50 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Dec 24, 2021, 06:50 PM verify Changed fields: originalMeaning, isVerified, components, customSources, strokeDataSimp, fragmentsSimp, historicalImages Original meaning: suspend, hang Simplified form of 縣. Pictograph of a severed head (首) hanging on a rope (系) from a tree (木). Based on the original meaning "hang" or "suspend". The current meaning is a phonetic loan. The traditional component 系 was removed for simplification. Components 首 首 Iconic component Change in form Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 首 than it was in ancient scripts.木 木 Iconic component Change in form Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 木 than it was in ancient scripts.系 系 Deleted component The traditional component 系 was removed for simplification. Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode