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qiān
HSK 7freq #7728

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qiān
  1. 1.lead (chemistry)
yán
  1. 1.used in 铅山[Yán shān] (the name of a place in Jiangxi)
qiān
  1. 1.old variant of 铅[qiān]

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.lead (Pb)
  2. 2.lead (in a pencil); graphite
  3. 3.used in 鉛山/铅山 (Yánshān)

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *lon): semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 㕣 (OC *lon) – a kind of metal. Most varieties have a pronunciation derived from a velar initial. * Schuessler (2007) see it a re-etymologization towards 掔 (MC khean|khen, “solid; hard”). * Per Liu (2022), it is from Wu, in which the character 鉛 /铅 is used to denote an etymon meaning "tinplate" with this velar pronunciation. As for further etymology, Liu suggested it an Indo-European-sourced borrowing, cf. English can (“metal container”).

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