qiān
adverb

Meanings

  1. 1 all; everyone; in unison (classical)

Examples

Qiān yuē kě.
Everyone said yes.

Tips

history
(simplified from ) meant 'all / in unison' in classical Chinese and is not used alone today. It lives on as the phonetic in (to sign), (to inspect), (face), (sword), and (to test).

Components

ideograph
qiān
all; in unison
Treated as one unit in the simplified form. The fuller traditional stacked a 'gather' top over two 'mouth' and two 'person' elements to picture a crowd speaking together; the simplified shape no longer maps to those parts.

Filed under radical (rén, #9) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

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