剪 (jiǎn)
to cut (with scissors)/scissors
How 剪 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 丷 — eight/divide
- Traditional
- 剪
- Simplified
- 剪 (unchanged)
Common words using 剪
- 剪刀 jiǎndāo
- scissors; CL:把[ba3]
- 剪成 jiǎnchéng
- cut into
- 剪掉 jiǎndiào
- to cut off; to cut away; to trim
- 剪紙 jiǎnzhǐ
- papercutting (Chinese folk art); to make paper cutouts
- 剪裁 jiǎncái
- to tailor (clothes); to trim (expenditure)
- 剪輯 jiǎnjí
- to edit (video images, film)
- 修剪 xiūjiǎn
- to prune; to trim
- 剪切 jiǎnqiē
- to shear; shearing (force)
- 剪報 jiǎnbào
- newspaper cutting; clippings
- 剪子 jiǎnzi
- clippers; scissors; shears
- 剪彩 jiǎncǎi
- to cut the ribbon (at a launching or opening ceremony)
- 剪影 jiǎnyǐng
- paper-cut silhouette; outline; sketch
剪 in a sentence
頭髮太長了，我想去剪頭髮。
Tóufǎ tài cháng le, wǒ xiǎng qù jiǎn tóufǎ.
“My hair is too long; I want to go get a haircut.”
How common is 剪?
剪 is the 2,222nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 97.8% of all running text.
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