掀
xiān HSK7

lift

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 欣 represents the sound.

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

欣
欣 Sound component
xīn happy, joyous

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqʰan

說文解字

舉出也。从手欣聲。《春秋傳》曰：“掀公出於淖。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)