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qiān
  1. 1.short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc
  2. 2.skewer
  3. 3.prod used to extract samples from sacks of grain etc
  4. 4.(dialect) to stick in
  5. 5.to bolt (a door)
  6. 6.to arrange (flowers in a vase)
  7. 7.to graft (tree)
  8. 8.to pedicure
  9. 9.to peel (an apple etc)

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.skewer
  2. 2.to skewer; to impale

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): semantic 扌 + phonetic 千 (OC *sn̥ʰiːn).

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Components

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

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