xiǎn

bare footed

Components

Meaning component
foot

foot

Sound component
xiān first

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsɯːnʔ

說文解字

足親地也。从足先聲。

Sources

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