jiè
to lie between
Depicts a person between two lines.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
jiè
forerunner, herald, harbinger; to lie between; sea shell; to wear armor; to introduce; between; shell; armor
Most common words with 介
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to introduce (sb to sb) | ||
to care about | ||
between | ||
to intervene | ||
to link |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤr[e]p-s | keajH | jiè | armour; scale of animals |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 57.8248% of movies
773rd most common character in movies
831st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+4ECB |
Shuowen | “介,畫也。从八,从人。人各有介。” |
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