jiàn
sword
Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 佥 represents the sound. Simplified form of 劍.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 剑
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
double-edged sword | ||
(double-edged) sword | ||
Cambridge | ||
fencing | ||
fencer (i.e. sportsman involved in fencing) |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 7.6245% of movies
1678th most common character in movies
869th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5251 |
Sources
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