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掔
qiān

sturdy

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰriːn
kʰiːn

說文解字

固也。从手臤聲。讀若《詩》“赤舃掔掔”。

Sources

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