jiàn

brook

A stream flowing through a valley  also provides the pronunciation

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

間 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

jiānjiàn

  

space

Evolution

澗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
澗 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
澗 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
澗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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jiàn

brook, mountain stream; mountain stream

Most common words with 澗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

mountain stream

山涧

mountain stream

溪涧

stream

清涧

Qingjian County in Yulin 榆林[Yú​lín], Shaanxi

涧西区

Jianxi district of Luoyang City 洛陽市|洛阳市 in Henan province 河南

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤra[n]-s (rhymes as if *[k]ˤra[n])

kaenH

jiàn

stream in a ravine


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3828th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+6F97

Shuowen

“,山夾水也。从水,間聲。一曰水。出弘農新安,東南入洛。”


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