jiàn

剑

sword, dagger, saber

HSK 3.0 · 6
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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 HSK 7–9

Character facts

Radical
刂 knife
Parts
佥 + 刂
Structure
Left–right
Traditional
劍
Unicode
U+5251

Pictophonetic: knife