jiàn

to spy

Evolution

瞷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

jiàn

to spy

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-[k]ˤ<r>en

hean

xián

spy on, watch


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

8316th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+77B7

Shuowen

“瞯,戴目也。从目,閒聲。江淮之間謂眄曰瞯。”


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