Chinese Character 剑 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

剑 meaning[3] in English

Double-Edged Sword.

Cl:口[Kou3],把[Ba3].

Classifier For Blows Of A Sword.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are all (佥) , and 'knife' radical in … (刂)

Its radical[1] is: (dao1) which means: Surname Dao, .dao1surname Dao

In cangjie it is written with OMLN

How to write 剑

To writejian4double-edged sword you should write a combination of qian1all , dao1'knife' radical … arranged in a shape:

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剑 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 剑 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of , looks as follow:

Pinyin:jian4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Double-Edged Sword . Cl:口[Kou3],把[Ba3] . Classifier For Blows Of A Sword

Pinyin:qian1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: All

Pinyin:ji2 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 集[Ji2]

Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]

Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit

Pinyin:xiao3
Meaning[3]: Small . Tiny . Few . Young

Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit

Pinyin:dao1
Meaning[3]: 'Knife' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 18) . See Also 立刀旁[Li4 Dao1 Pang2] . See Also 側刀旁|侧刀旁[Ce4 Dao1 Pang2]

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 剑in English or Chinese