jiān
seal
Phonosemantic compound. 纟 represents the meaning and 咸 represents the sound. Simplified form of 緘.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3908th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+7F04 |
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