This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

Having a hard 堅 heart 忄; 堅 also provides the pronunciation

  • 慳 miserly, stingy, thrifty qiān
    • 忄 heart; mind; soul xīn
    • 堅 hard, strong; firm, resolute jiān
      • 臤 stern; wise qiān
        • 臣 minister, statesman, official, vassal chén
        • 又 and, also, again, in addition yòu
      • 土 soil, earth; items made of earth tǔ

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