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qián front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly
qián coin / money / CL:筆|笔[bi3] / unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩|两[liang3]
qiān thousand
qiān used in 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]
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[ba1 gua4], 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)
为五斗米折腰 wèi dǒu zhé yāo (allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜[Tao2 Qian2], 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
张骞 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
司马迁 Qiān Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4], known as the father of Chinese historiography
qiàn pretty / winsome / to ask for sb's help / son-in-law (old)
qiàn boatman's tow-rope
吴市吹箫 shì chuī xiāo (idiom) to beg on the streets; to fall into utter destitution (allusion to Wu Zixu's 伍子胥[Wu3 Zi3 xu1] exile and humiliation as described in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4])
钱钟书 Qián Zhōng shū Qian Zhongshu (1910–1998), Chinese scholar and writer, author of the 1947 novel Fortress Beseiged 圍城|围城[Wei2 cheng2]
qiàn to apologize / to regret / deficient


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