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骞

qiān

Character Traditional 騫

What 骞 means

1. literaryto hold high

Words containing 骞

• 张骞Zhāng QiānZhang Qian (-114 BC), Han dynasty explorer of 2nd century BC

Characters built on 宀

These share the phonetic component 宀 (mián), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 宪xiànstatute; constitution
• 蹇jiǎnlame; cripple; unfortunate
• 搴qiānto seize; to pull; to hold up the hem of clothes
• 謇jiǎnto speak out boldly

Sounds the same

Read qiān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 铅lead (chemistry)
• 千thousand
• 签to sign one's name; to write brief comments on a document…
• 牵to lead along; to pull (an animal on a tether); (bound form) to involve
• 谦modest
• 迁to move; to shift; to change (a position or location etc)
• 搴to seize; to pull; to hold up the hem of clothes
• 褰to lift (clothes, sheets); lower garments
• 悭stingy
• 仟thousand (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
• 芊green; luxuriant growth
• 钎a drill (for boring through rock)