扦(qiān): short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc

6 strokes

short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc

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插脚蜡

Character information

Pinyin: qiān
Meaning: short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc; skewer; prod used to extract samples from sacks of grain etc; (dialect) to stick in; to bolt (a door); to arrange (flowers in a vase); to graft (tree); to pedicure; to peel (an apple etc)
Strokes: 6
HSK level: —
Traditional: Same

Origin & structureWhere 扦 comes from

Phonetic-semantic compound⿰扌千

In this compound, the meaning comes from 扌 (hand); 千 supplies the sound.

One part carries the meaning, the other suggests the sound.

Made of

扌shǒumeaning
"hand" radical in Chinese characters…
Also in 我打找把才提
千qiānsound
thousand
Also in 重舌迁纤乖歼

Parts are arranged left to right.

Words with 扦most common first

qiān扦chā插

(agriculture) to plant by cuttage; to propagate from cuttings

qiān扦jiǎo脚

(dialect) pedicure; to trim one's toenails

là蜡qiān扦

candlestick with a spike, onto which candles are impaled

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