儉 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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jiǎn

temperate

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 僉 represents the sound.

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

僉 Sound component

qiān

together

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

俭 (儉)

jiǎn

temperate, frugal, economical; frugal; thrifty; needy

Most common words with 儉

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	节俭	frugal
	勤俭	hardworking and frugal
	省吃俭用	to live frugally
	勤工俭学	work-study program
	俭	frugal

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[g]r[a]mʔ	gjemX	jiǎn	restrict， frugal

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2891st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	15
Simplified	俭
Unicode	U+5109
Shuowen	“儉，約也。从人，僉聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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