Keyword
skewer
- to probe
- to poke
- to pierce
- to pick at
- Frequency
- #4872
- Strokes
- 6
Readings
qiān
Mnemonic
扌 (hand) gives the meaning and 千 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
扦插
(agriculture) to plant by cuttage; to propagate from cuttings
扦
short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc; skewer; prod used to extract samples from sacks of grain etc; (dialect) to stick in; to bolt (a door); to arrange (flowers in a vase); to graft (tree); to pedicure; to peel (an apple etc)