jiān
reed
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤem | kem | jiān | rush, sedge |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6704th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+84B9 |
Shuowen | “蒹,雚之未秀者。从艸,兼聲。” |
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