jiān, jiàn
watch carefully
Simplified form of 監. Depicts a person (人) looking (臣) at his own reflection on a plate (皿).
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤram | kaem | jiān | inspect |
*kˤram-s | kaemH | jiàn | mirror |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 52.0583% of movies
608th most common character in movies
838th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+76D1 |
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