jiàn
tendons
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 建 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5022nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+8171 |
Shuowen | “,筋之本也。从筋,从夗省聲。腱,或从肉、建。” |
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