jiān
note
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 戔 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
3731st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7B8B |
Shuowen | “箋,表識書也。从竹,戔聲。” |
Sources
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