尖 (jiān): meaning and stroke order
尖 (jiān) means pointed; tapering; sharp, (of a sound) shrill; piercing.
尖
- Simplified
- 尖
- Traditional
- 尖 (same form)
- Pinyin
- jiān
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Stroke order of 尖
尖
- jiān pointed; tapering; sharp; (of a sound) shrill; piercing
- 6 strokes
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Meaning of 尖
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jiān
- pointed; tapering; sharp
- (of a sound) shrill; piercing
- (of one's hearing, sight etc) sharp; acute; keen
- to make (one's voice) shrill
- sharp point; tip
- the best of sth; the cream of the crop
Radical and structure
- 尖
- Radical 小 (Kangxi radical 42) · 6 strokes · 𡭔 on top, 大 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 尖
- 鼻尖 bí jiān tip of the nose
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).