Chinese Character Wiki

殲

jiān

annihilate

Components
歹 meaning component

歹  Meaning component

dǎi

  

evil, bad

death

韱 sound component

韱  Sound component

xiān

  

wild onions or leeks

Evolution

殲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
殲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

歼 (殲) 

jiān

annihilate, wipe out, kill off; to annihilate; abbr. for 殲擊機|歼击机, fighter plane

Most common words with 殲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

歼灭

to wipe out

歼

to annihilate

全歼

to annihilate

歼击机

fighter plane

歼击

to annihilate

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

1815th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

歼

Unicode

U+6BB2

Shuowen

“殲，微盡也。从歺，韱聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘齊人殲于遂’。”


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