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Mythic Mandarin

剑 (jiàn): meaning and stroke order

剑 (jiàn) means double-edged sword, CL:口,把, classifier for blows of a sword, variant of 剑.

剑

Simplified
剑
Traditional
劍, 劒
Pinyin
jiàn

Stroke order of 剑

剑

  • jiàn double-edged sword; CL:口[kou3],把[ba3]
  • jiàn variant of 劍|剑[jian4]
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 劍

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 剑

  1. jiàn Traditional 劍
    • double-edged sword
    • CL:口[kou3],把[ba3]
    • classifier for blows of a sword
  2. jiàn Traditional 劒
    • variant of 劍|剑[jian4]

Radical and structure

剑
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 9 strokes · 佥 on the left, 刂 on the right

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 剑

  • 刻舟求剑 kè zhōu qiú jiàn lit. a notch on the side of a boat to locate a sword dropped overboard (idiom); fig. an action made pointless by changed circumstances

剑 in our stories

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  • 李靖以为是妖怪，拔剑一砍，肉球裂开，从里面跳出一个白白胖胖的男孩，手上套着一只金圈，身上围着一条红绫。

    Lǐ Jìng yǐwéi shì yāoguài bá jiàn yì kǎn ròuqiú liè kāi cóng lǐmiàn tiào chū yí gè báibáipàngpàng de nánhái shǒu shàng tào zhe yì zhī jīn quān shēn shàng wéi zhe yì tiáo hóng líng

    Thinking it was a demon, Li Jing drew his sword and struck; the ball split open and out jumped a plump, fair boy with a gold ring on his wrist and a red silk sash around his body.

    From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 剑

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).