CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- qian3
- English meanings
- shallow, superficial, easy, simple, light (of color)
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Left–right structure
Left–right arrangement: left 氵; right 戋.
Meaning & sound clues
氵 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “water”.
戋 is identified as the sound component (jiān). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 浅.
This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.
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Characters with the same pinyin, regardless of tone.
Qian (heaven trigram)
front
thousand
moat; trench
inlay; embed
yawn
apology
dive; latent
pull
sign
euryale; starch
pious; sincere
modest; humble
blame; condemn
move
send; dispatch
sum
pliers; clamp
lead (chemistry)
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- 搁浅