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xiàn
HSK 7freq #6466

Meanings

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xiàn
  1. 1.pitfall
  2. 2.trap
  3. 3.to get stuck
  4. 4.to sink
  5. 5.to cave in
  6. 6.to frame (false charge)
  7. 7.to capture (a city in battle)
  8. 8.to fall (to the enemy)
  9. 9.defect

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to submerge; to sink; to plunge
  2. 2.to be captured
  3. 3.to breach; to break through; to make a breakthrough
  4. 4.trap (device designed to catch animals)
  5. 5.to frame; to entrap; to set up; to bring up someone on false charges
  6. 6.to sink
  7. 7.fault; defect; drawback

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡroːms): semantic 阜 + phonetic 臽 (OC *kʰloːmʔ, *ɡroːms, “to fall into a trap”). 臽 is the pictographic protoform of this character; 阜 was added later to differentiate.

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