Chinese Character Wiki
箭

jiàn

arrow

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 前 represents the sound.

Components
⺮ meaning component

⺮  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹.

前 sound component

前  Sound component

qián

  

in front

Evolution

箭 Bronze script Mid Warring States (~300 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
箭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
箭 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
箭 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

箭  

jiàn

arrow; type of bamboo; CL:支[zhī]

Most common words with 箭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

火箭

rocket

箭

arrow

弓箭

bow and arrow

箭头

arrowhead

射箭

archery

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]en-s

tsjenH

jiàn

arrow


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 8.9060% of movies

1794th most common character in movies

1496th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+7BAD

Shuowen

“箭，矢也。从竹，前聲。”


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