𦰩
jiān

to sigh

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Depicts a tortured person or a criminal (黑) sighing (口).

Components

口
口 Iconic component

Depicts a mouth.

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

Here used to depict a tortured person or criminal sighing.

Sources

Character origin
黃德寬《古文字譜系疏證》p.3655
Readings & variants
Unicode