键 (jiàn): meaning and stroke order
键 (jiàn) means key (on a piano or computer keyboard), button (on a mouse or other device), chemical bond.
键
- Simplified
- 键
- Traditional
- 鍵
- Pinyin
- jiàn
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Stroke order of 键
键
- jiàn key (on a piano or computer keyboard); button (on a mouse or other device)
- 13 strokes
- Traditional form: 鍵
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Meaning of 键
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jiàn
Traditional 鍵
- key (on a piano or computer keyboard)
- button (on a mouse or other device)
- chemical bond
- linchpin
Radical and structure
- 键
- Radical 钅 (Kangxi radical 167) in its simplified form · 13 strokes · 钅 on the left, 建 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 键
- 关键 guān jiàn crucial point; crux
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).