kǎn, jiàn
threshold
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 監 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤramʔ | haemX | jiàn | straight-jetted (water) |
*[g]ˤramʔ | haemX | jiàn | railing; cage |
*[g]ˤamʔ | hamX | jiàn | railing; cage |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3379th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6ABB |
Shuowen | “檻,櫳也。从木,監聲。一曰圈。” |
Sources
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