qiān

footpaths between fields

Components
阝 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hill, place

hill

千 sound component

  Sound component

qiān

  

thousand

Evolution

阡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
阡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

qiān

footpaths between fields; paths; road leading north and south

Most common words with 阡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

road leading north and south

喀尔巴阡山脉

Carpathian Mountains, 1500-km mountain range in Central and Eastern Europe

石阡

Siqian county in Tongren prefecture 銅仁地區|铜仁地区[Tóng​rén​dì​qū], Guizhou

石阡县

Siqian county in Tongren prefecture 銅仁地區|铜仁地区[Tóng​rén​dì​qū], Guizhou

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[tsʰ]ˤi[n]

tshen

qiān

N-S path between fields


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5147th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+9621

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“阡,路東西為陌,南北為阡。从,千聲。”


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