jiàn
remonstrate
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 柬 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 諫
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to admonish | ||
to admonish | ||
direct criticism | ||
to remonstrate | ||
to follow admonition as natural flow (idiom); to accept criticism or correction (even from one's inferiors) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤranʔ(-s) (~ *kˤranʔ) | kaenH | jiàn | admonish |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3050th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8AEB |
Shuowen | “諫，証也。从言，柬聲。” |
Sources
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