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陷

xiàn

submerge

Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 臽 represents the sound.

Components
阝 meaning component

阝  Meaning component

fù

  

hill, place

阝 is a component form of 阜.

臽 sound,iconic component

臽  Sound Iconic component

xiàn

  

a pit

Depicts a person (人) falling into a pit or a trap (凵).

Evolution

陷 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
陷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

陷  

xiàn

submerge, sink, plunge; trap; pitfall; to get stuck; to sink; to cave in; to frame (false charge); to capture (a city in battle); to fall (to the enemy); defect

Most common words with 陷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

陷入

to sink into

缺陷

defect

陷阱

pitfall

陷

trap

陷害

to entrap

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ˤromʔ-s

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xiàn

fall into a pit


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 30.9787% of movies

1236th most common character in movies

1262nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+9677

Shuowen

“陷，高下也。一曰陊也。从，从臽，臽亦聲。”


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