kān

subjugate

Components

Sound component
shén, shèn extremely
Meaning component
spear

spear

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkhom[kʰ]ˤ[ə]mkill
Zhengzhangkʰluːm
ʔl'umʔ
Unicodekom

說文解字

刺也。从戈甚聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica