Chinese Character Wiki

湔

jiān

wash

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

water

前 sound component

前  Sound component

qián

  

in front

Evolution

湔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
湔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

湔  

jiān

wash, cleanse; purge; to wash; to redress (a wrong); name of a river

Most common words with 湔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

湔

to wash

湔洗

to wash

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5920th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+6E54

Shuowen

“湔，水。出蜀群緜虒玉壘山，東南入江。从水，前聲。一曰手之。”


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