jiàn

a mountain stream or torrent

Evolution

㵎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
㵎 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
㵎 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

 

jiàn

a mountain stream or torrent, a number measuring used in ancient times; a hundred million waterways (ditches) equal to a mountain stream, a river in ancient, head source in south of Henan Province, flowing east then north to combine with Gushui (today's Jianhe)

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jiàn

variant of |[jiàn]

Most common words with 㵎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

mountain stream

山涧

mountain stream

溪涧

stream

清涧

Qingjian County in Yulin 榆林[Yú​lín], Shaanxi

涧西区

Jianxi district of Luoyang City 洛陽市|洛阳市 in Henan province 河南

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3828th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+3D4E

Shuowen

“,山夾水也。从水,間聲。一曰水。出弘農新安,東南入洛。”


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