歼
jiān HSK7

annihilate

A thousand 千 corpses 歹; 千 also provides the pronunciation

Components

歹
歹 Meaning component
dǎi, è, dāi evil, bad
千
千 SoundMeaning component
qiān thousand

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

殲 jiān annihilate Traditional

Components

歹
歹 Meaning component
dǎi, è, dāi evil, bad

death

韱
韱 Sound component
xiān wild onions or leeks

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangʔsem
Unicodetziɛm

說文解字

微盡也。从歺韱聲。《春秋傳》曰：“齊人殲于遂。”

Sources

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