jiān
firm, solid
Simplified form of 堅. Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 臤 represents the sound.
Components
臤 Sound Simplified component
qiān
to gouge out an eye
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernComponent uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 52.9233% of movies
841st most common character in movies
748th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+575A |
Sources
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