jiàn

remonstrate

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
讠 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

is a component form of .

柬 sound component

  Sound component

jiǎn

  

letter

Evolution

谏 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
谏 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
谏 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

jiàn

remonstrate, admonish; to remonstrate; to admonish

() 

Jiàn

surname Jian

Most common words with 谏
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)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3050th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+8C0F


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