銛
xiān

sharp

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkoːd
slem
l̥ʰeːmʔ

說文解字

鍤屬。从金舌聲。讀若棪。桑欽讀若鐮。

Sources

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

铦 xiān, tiǎn, guā sharp Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode