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qián front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 293) / former / formerly
qián coin / money / CL: / unit of weight, one tenth of a tael
qiān thousand
qiān used in 秋千
qiǎn shallow / light (color)
qiān inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag
Qián surname Qian
qián one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven / male principle / ☰ / ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)
qiàn to owe / to lack / (literary) to be deficient in / (bound form) yawn / to raise slightly (a part of one's body)
qiān to lead along / to pull (an animal on a tether) / (bound form) to involve / to draw in
Qián surname Qian
qiàn Gorgon plant / fox nut (Gorgon euryale or Euryale ferox) / makhana (Hindi)
qiǎn (usu. of an animal) the part of the side of the body between the ribs and the hipbone
qiǎn to censure / to reprimand
qiān lead (chemistry)
wèi dǒu zhé yāo (allusion to Tao Qian 陶潜, who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary
qián hidden / secret / latent / to hide / to conceal / to submerge / to dive
Zhāng Qiān Zhang Qian (-114 BC), Han dynasty explorer of 2nd century BC
qiān to move / to shift / to change (a position or location etc) / to promote
Qiān Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史记, known as the father of Chinese historiography


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