jiàn
mean
Costing little 戔 money 貝; 戔 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Bronze script
Warring States (475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[dz][a][n]-s | dzjenH | jiàn | cheap; low, mean |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 16.5626% of movies
1551st most common character in movies
2589th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8CE4 |
Shuowen | “賤,賈少也。从貝,戔聲。” |
Sources
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