qiān

footpaths between fields

Components

Meaning component
hill, place

hill

Sound component
qiān thousand

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttshen[tsʰ]ˤi[n]N-S path between fields
Zhengzhangsn̥ʰiːn
Unicodetsen

說文解字

路東西爲陌,南北爲阡。从𨸏千聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica