The order of Qin's strokes is horizontal, vertical, horizontal fold, vertical, vertical, horizontal, vertical, horizontal fold, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, vertical.
覃 (pronounced tán, qín, yǎn) is a standard second-level character in modern Chinese. The earliest glyph "Qin" can be found in the bronze inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty's "Jinwen Bian". The original meaning is profound, which later extends to the meaning of extending or spreading to, and also has the meaning of profound and broad, which further leads to the meaning of spreading widely.
Qin, the characters in the Shang Dynasty are shaped like an altar filled with salt, and the upper part is like a bag tied with salt. The upper edge of the small seal script is mistakenly called "Lun", and the dots in it are shaped like salt grains. Liu Heng believes that Qin is a pictorial and phonetic character that also understands meaning. The ancient Chinese characters for Qin in "Shuowen" and "Four Tone Rhymes" record that the ancient Chinese characters for Qin are both Conglu and Dan tones. Lu is the shape side, and Dan is the sound side. After the official reform, the regular script was written as "Qin".
Qin, pronounced as tán, means deep and long taste, which leads to the meaning of extending or spreading, and also has the meaning of profound and wide, which also leads to the meaning of spreading widely. When pronounced qín, it is used as a surname, but when used as a surname, it can also be pronounced tán. When pronounced as yǎn, it means sharpening something with a blade, which brings out a profound meaning.
Multiple definitions in the Kangxi Dictionary:
1. Meaning: both profound and broad. "Book of Jin: Biography of Xiahou Zhan": Yang Xiongtan thought about Taixuan.
2. Meaning: place name. "Book·Yu Gong": Qin Huai's achievements. Biography: Qin Huai, the name of a place near the river.
3. Meaning: Huang Tanzi, the name of the song. "Book of Jin Le Zhi": created by Li Yannian.
4. Meaning: surname. "Tongzhi·Clan Brief": This Tan, or in other words, is Qin, and Qin Wuke, the governor of Ningzhou in the southeast of Liang Dynasty.
The character Qin is used as a surname
The surname Qin is a Chinese surname. Derived from the surnames Qin Huai and Tan. During the pre-Qin period, the Qin surname was active in Henan, and the main force also moved from the north to the south. After the Qin, Han, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the surname Qin has spread to various places. During the Song Dynasty, the surname Tan was already a famous surname in Guangxi, forming a typical southern surname.
During the Song Dynasty, there were about 8,000 people with the surname Qin, mainly concentrated in Guangxi. During the Ming Dynasty, there were approximately 48,000 people with the surname Qin. Guangxi is still the largest province with the surname Qin, accounting for approximately 65% ??of the total population of the surname Qin in the country.
The contemporary Han population with the surname Qin is nearly 1.3 million, making it the 129th surname in the country. The distribution of the surname Tan in the country is mainly concentrated in Guangxi, accounting for about 62% of the population of the surname Tan in the country. Secondly, they are distributed in the four provinces of Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan and Guangdong, accounting for about 29% of the total population of the surname Qin in the country.