劍 (jiàn)
sword
How 劍 is written
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 人 — human
- Traditional
- 劍
- Simplified
- 剑
Common words using 劍
- 劍客 jiànkè
- fencer (i.e. sportsman involved in fencing)
- 劍橋 jiànqiáo
- Cambridge, university city in England
- 佩劍 pèijiàn
- saber
- 利劍 lìjiàn
- sharp sword
- 刻舟求劍 kèzhōuqiújiàn
- lit. a notch on the side of a boat to locate a sword dropped overboard (idiom); fig. an action made pointless by changed circumstances
- 劍川 jiànchuān
- Jianchuan county in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture 大理白族自治州[Da4 li3 Bai2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan
- 劍川縣 jiànchuānxiàn
- Jianchuan county in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture 大理白族自治州[Da4 li3 Bai2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan
- 劍拔弩張 jiànbánǔzhāng
- lit. with swords drawn and bows bent (idiom); fig. a state of mutual hostility; at daggers drawn
- 劍柄 jiànbǐng
- sword hilt
- 劍河 jiànhé
- Jianhe county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州[Qian2 dong1 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou
- 劍法 jiànfǎ
- fencing; sword-play
- 劍術 jiànshù
- fencing
劍 in a sentence
武俠小說裡的主角通常都帶著一把劍。
Wǔxiá xiǎoshuō lǐ de zhǔjiǎo tōngcháng dōu dàizhe yì bǎ jiàn.
“The main characters in martial arts novels usually carry a sword.”
How common is 劍?
劍 is the 867th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 86.8% of all running text.
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