Chinese Character Wiki

椷

jiān

box

Evolution

椷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

椷  

jiān

box; casket; letter; envelope

缄 (椷) 

jiān

(wooden) box; cup; old variant of 緘|缄[jiān]

Most common words with 椷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

缄默

to keep silent

缄

cup

缄口不言

to censor

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3908th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+6937

Shuowen

“椷，篋也。从木，咸聲。”


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