jiàn

sword

Evolution

劎 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
劎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
劎 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Definitions

 

jiàn

sword, dagger

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+528E

Shuowen

“劒,人所帶兵也。从刃,僉聲。劍,籀文劒从刀。”


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