jiàn

remonstrate

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

柬 sound component

  Sound component

jiǎn

  

letter

Evolution

諫 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
諫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
諫 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
諫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

jiàn

remonstrate, admonish; to remonstrate; to admonish

() 

Jiàn

surname Jian

Most common words with 諫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to admonish

劝谏

to admonish

直谏

direct criticism

规谏

to remonstrate

从谏如流

to follow admonition as natural flow (idiom); to accept criticism or correction (even from one's inferiors)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤranʔ(-s) (~ *kˤranʔ)

kaenH

jiàn

admonish


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3050th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+8AEB

Shuowen

“諫,証也。从言,柬聲。”


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