jiān

note

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of .

戔 sound component

  Sound component

jiān

  

small

Evolution

箋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
箋 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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jiān

note, memo; stationery; comments; letter; note-paper

Most common words with 箋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

letter

信笺

letter

便笺

memo

笺注

commentaries

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3731st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+7B8B

Shuowen

“箋,表識書也。从竹,戔聲。”


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