jiǎn

inspect

Original meaning: 

label on a book

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of . Based on the original meaning "label on a book". The meaning later shifted to "arrange" and "examine".

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

佥 sound component

  Sound component

qiān

  

together

Evolution

检 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
检 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
检 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

jiǎn

check; examine; to check; to examine; to inspect; to exercise restraint

Most common words with 检
Freq.
Word
Meaning

检查

inspection

检测

to detect

to check

检察官

public prosecutor

检验

to inspect

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 49.8318% of movies

657th most common character in movies

731st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+68C0


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