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Mythic Mandarin

鉴 (jiàn): meaning and stroke order

鉴 (jiàn) means variant of 鉴, old variant of 鉴, bronze mirror (used in ancient times), to reflect.

鉴

Simplified
鉴
Traditional
鋻, 鍳, 鑑, 鑒
Pinyin
jiàn

Stroke order of 鉴

鉴

  • jiàn variant of 鑑|鉴[jian4]
  • jiàn old variant of 鑒|鉴[jian4]
  • jiàn bronze mirror (used in ancient times); to reflect
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 鋻

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 鉴

  1. jiàn Traditional 鋻
    • variant of 鑑|鉴[jian4]
  2. jiàn Traditional 鍳
    • old variant of 鑒|鉴[jian4]
  3. jiàn Traditional 鑑
    • bronze mirror (used in ancient times)
    • to reflect
    • to mirror
    • sth that serves as a warning or a lesson
    • to examine
    • to scrutinize
  4. jiàn Traditional 鑒
    • variant of 鑑|鉴[jian4]

Radical and structure

鉴
Radical 金 (Kangxi radical 167) · 13 strokes

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 鉴

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).