jiàn
bar of door
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
jiàn
bar of door, bolt of lock; material (such as rocks, earth, bamboo etc) used to hastily repair a dike; (literary) door bar (vertical bar used to prevent the horizontal movement of a door bolt)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
8305th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+6957 |
Shuowen | “楗，限門也。从木，建聲。” |
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