鉗 — Chinese character
鉗
qián
pincers, pliers, tongs; to compress
- Pinyin
- qián
- Radical
- 167 ⾦ (Gold)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 釒 甘
- Formation
- pictophonetic — metal; meaning component 釒; sound component 甘
- Simplified
- 钳
- Japanese
- 鉗 as a kanji
鉗 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.