fierce dog

Components

Sound component
strange
Meaning component
qiàn, qian yawn, deficient

lack

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰral
qral
Unicodegyɛ

Sources

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