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前 qián front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly
钱 qián coin / money / CL:笔 / unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 两
千 qiān thousand
千 qiān used in 秋千
浅 qiǎn shallow / light (color)
签 qiān inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc) / small wood sliver / label / tag
乾 Qián surname Qian
乾 qián one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing heaven / male principle / ☰ / ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)
欠 qiàn to owe / to lack / (literary) to be deficient in / (bound form) yawn / to raise slightly (a part of one's body)
牵 qiān to lead along / to pull (an animal on a tether) / (bound form) to involve / to draw in
钱 Qián surname Qian
芡 qiàn Gorgon plant / fox nut (Gorgon euryale or Euryale ferox) / makhana (Hindi)
肷 qiǎn (usu. of an animal) the part of the side of the body between the ribs and the hipbone
谴 qiǎn to censure / to reprimand
铅 qiān lead (chemistry)
为五斗米折腰 wèi wǔ dǒu mǐ 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
潜 qián hidden / secret / latent / to hide / to conceal / to submerge / to dive
张骞 Zhāng Qiān Zhang Qian (-114 BC), Han dynasty explorer of 2nd century BC
迁 qiān to move / to shift / to change (a position or location etc) / to promote
司马迁 Sī mǎ 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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