jiān
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Original meaning:
kill
Simplified form of 戔. Combination of two weapons (戈), based on the original meaning "kill", now written as 殘. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernComponent uses
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6653rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+620B |
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