戔
jiān

small

Original meaning: kill

Depicts two weapons (戈) facing each other. Based on the original meaning "kill", now written as 殘. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

戈
戈 Iconic component
gē spear
戈
戈 Iconic component
gē spear

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (5 of 10 verified)

錢踐盞箋殘餞淺棧賤綫

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

賤

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdzan[dz]ˤa[n] kill; cruel

說文解字

《說文》：“戔，賊也。从二戈。《周書》曰：‘戔戔巧言。’”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫何琳儀《戰國古文字典：戰國文字聲系》p.1042
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

戋 jiān, cán small Simplified

Original meaning: kill

Simplified form of 戔. Depicts two weapons (戈) facing each other. Based on the original meaning "kill", now written as 殘. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

戈
戈 Iconic component
gē spear
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 戈 than it was in ancient scripts.
戈
戈 Iconic component
gē spear

Component uses

Sound (5 of 10 verified)

线钱残践浅贱盏栈笺饯

Meaning (1 of 2 verified)

贱盏

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫何琳儀《戰國古文字典：戰國文字聲系》p.1042
Readings & variants
Unicode