jiàn, jiān
gradually
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 斩 represents the sound. Simplified form of 漸.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 渐
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
gradually | ||
gradually | ||
gradual | ||
more (or better etc) with each passing day | ||
in sequence, step by step (idiom); to make steady progress incrementally |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 10.8602% of movies
1846th most common character in movies
870th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6E10 |
Sources
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