xiǎn

hunt

Evolution

獮 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
獮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

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xiǎn

hunt; autumn hunting; to capture with a fine net; to hunt in autumn (archaic)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s.[n]e[r]ʔ

sjenX

xiǎn

autumnal hunt


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+736E

Shuowen

“,秋田也。从犬,璽聲。”


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