Chinese Character Wiki

賤

jiàn

mean

Costing little 戔 money 貝; 戔 also provides the pronunciation

Components
貝 meaning component

貝  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

戔 sound,meaning component

戔  Sound Meaning component

jiān

  

small

Evolution

賤 Bronze script Warring States (475-221 BC)

Bronze script

Warring States (475-221 BC)
賤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

贱 (賤) 

jiàn

mean, low; cheap, worthless; inexpensive; lowly

Most common words with 賤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

贱

lowly

贱人

slut

贱货

bitch

下贱

humble

卑贱

lowly

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

濺

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[dz][a][n]-s

dzjenH

jiàn

cheap; low, mean


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.5626% of movies

1551st most common character in movies

2589th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

贱

Unicode

U+8CE4

Shuowen

“賤，賈少也。从貝，戔聲。”


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