Chinese Character Wiki

鉴

jiàn

mirror

Components
金 meaning component

金  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

metal

Evolution

鉴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鉴 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
鉴 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鉴 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

鉴 (鑒) 

jiàn

mirror, looking glass; reflect; variant of 鑑|鉴[jiàn]

鉴 (鑑) 

jiàn

example; mirror; to view; reflection; to reflect; to inspect; to warn; (ancient bronze mirror)

鉴 (鍳) 

jiàn

old variant of 鑒|鉴[jiàn]

Most common words with 鉴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鉴定

to appraise

鉴于

in view of

借鉴

to draw on (others' experience)

鉴

example

鉴别

to differentiate

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 13.9837% of movies

1787th most common character in movies

1655th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

鑒

Unicode

U+9274


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