jiān
crafty
Someone who flirts with many women 女
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 姦
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to rape | ||
wicked | ||
traitor (to China) | ||
undiscovered traitor | ||
rapist |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤran | kaen | jiān | wicked(ness) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 12.7182% of movies
1549th most common character in movies
1992nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+59E6 |
Shuowen | “姦，私也。从三女。，古文姦，从心，旱聲。” |
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