jiān

annihilate

A thousand  corpses  also provides the pronunciation

Components
歹 meaning component

  Meaning component

dǎi

  

corpse, carcass

千 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

qiān

  

thousand

Evolution

歼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
歼 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
歼 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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jiān

annihilate, wipe out, kill off; to annihilate; abbr. for 殲擊機|歼击机, fighter plane

Most common words with 歼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

歼灭

to wipe out

to annihilate

全歼

to annihilate

歼击机

fighter plane

歼击

to annihilate

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

1815th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+6B7C


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