jiàn

mirror

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
釒 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

is a component form of .

監 sound component

  Sound component

jiānjiàn

  

watch carefully

Evolution

鑑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

𰾫 () 

jiàn

mirror, looking glass; reflect

() 

jiàn

example; mirror; to view; reflection; to reflect; to inspect; to warn; (ancient bronze mirror)

Most common words with 鑑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鉴定

to appraise

鉴于

in view of

借鉴

to draw on (others' experience)

example

鉴别

to differentiate

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.9837% of movies

1787th most common character in movies

1655th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

22

Simplified

Unicode

U+9451

Shuowen

“鑑,大盆也。一曰監諸,可以取明水於月。从金,監聲。”


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