qiā HSK7

hold

Components

Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

hand

Sound component
xiàn a pit

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰroːb

說文解字

爪刺也。从手臽聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica