𢍱
qiān

to move

Depicts using hands (舁) to catch an animal by the horn (角) and make it move by force.

Components

舁
舁 Iconic component
yú to lift

Depicts four hands.

角
角 Iconic component
jiǎo, jué horn

Depicts an animal's horn. Modern form looks like unrelated 囟.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 角 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1)

說文解字

《說文》:“,升高也。从舁,囟聲。,或从卩。,古文。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.180
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica