jiān

fine silk

Evolution

縑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
縑 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

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jiān

fine silk; thick waterproof silk

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5876th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+7E11

Shuowen

“縑,并絲繒也。从糸,兼聲。”


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