jiǎn
simple
Original meaning:
bamboo strips for writing
Simplified form of 簡. Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 間 represents the sound. The character is based on the original meaning "bamboo strips for writing". The meaning later shifted to "letter", "concise", and "simple".
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 72.0006% of movies
551st most common character in movies
716th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+7B80 |
Sources
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