Chinese Character Wiki

捡

jiǎn

to pick up

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 佥 represents the sound. Simplified form of 撿.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

佥 sound component

佥  Sound component

qiān

  

together

Evolution

捡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
捡 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
捡 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

捡 (撿) 

jiǎn

to pick up; to collect; to gather

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 10.2034% of movies

1997th most common character in movies

2753rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

撿

Unicode

U+6361


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