jiàn
mirror
Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 監 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 鑑
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to appraise | ||
in view of | ||
to draw on (others' experience) | ||
example | ||
to differentiate |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 13.9837% of movies
1787th most common character in movies
1655th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9451 |
Shuowen | “鑑，大盆也。一曰監諸，可以取明水於月。从金，監聲。” |
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