Chinese Character Wiki
件

jiàn

piece

Depicts a person (亻) cutting a cow (牛) into pieces.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

牛 meaning component

牛  Meaning component

niú

  

cow

Evolution

件 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
件 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
件 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
件 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

件  

jiàn

numerary adjunct for article; matter; item; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc

Most common words with 件
Freq.
Word
Meaning

件

item

条件

condition

事件

event

文件

document

案件

case

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]r[a][n]ʔ (no pre-Qín exx?)

gjenX

jiàn

item


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 92.0391% of movies

249th most common character in movies

250th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+4EF6

Shuowen

“件，分也。从人，从牛。牛，大物，故可分。”


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