jiǎn

eyelid

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
目 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

eye

僉 sound component

  Sound component

qiān

  

together

Evolution

瞼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瞼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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jiǎn

eyelid

Most common words with 瞼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

眼睑

eyelid

eyelid

上睑

upper eyelid

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3901st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+77BC

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“瞼,目上下瞼也。从目,僉聲。”


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