Chinese Character Wiki

煎

jiān

fry in fat or oil

Phonosemantic compound. 灬 represents the meaning and 前 represents the sound.

Components
灬 meaning component

灬  Meaning component

biāo, huǒ

  

fire

灬 is a component form of 火.

前 sound component

前  Sound component

qián

  

in front

Evolution

煎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
煎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

煎  

jiān

fry in fat or oil; boil in water; to pan fry; to sauté

Most common words with 煎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

煎

to pan fry

煎饼

pancake

煎熬

to suffer

煎蛋

fried egg

煎锅

frying pan

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 8.8900% of movies

2065th most common character in movies

2893rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+714E

Shuowen

“煎，熬也。从火，前聲。”


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