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獻

xiàn

offer, donate

Original meaning: 

sacrificial offering

Depicts a dog (犬) in a boiler (鬳) being offered as a sacrifice.

Components
鬳 sound,iconic component

鬳  Sound Iconic component

yàn

  

boiler, earthenware vessel

犬 iconic component

犬  Iconic component

quǎn

  

dog

Evolution

獻 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
獻 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
獻 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
獻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

献 (獻) 

xiàn

offer, present; show, display; to offer; to present; to dedicate; to donate; to show; to put on display; worthy person (old)

Most common words with 獻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

贡献

to contribute

献

to offer

奉献

to consecrate

文献

document

捐献

to donate

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

讞

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-ŋˤar

sa

xiàn

to filter wine

*ŋ̊ar-s

xjonH

xiàn

offer, present


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 22.4251% of movies

1438th most common character in movies

1192nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

献

Unicode

U+737B

Shuowen

“獻，宗廟犬名羹獻，犬肥者以獻之。从犬，鬳聲。”


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