鎗
qiāng HSK5

rifle

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Variant of 槍 replacing the 木 component with 金.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰraːŋ

說文解字

《說文》：“鎗，鐘聲也。从金，倉聲。”

Sources

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