漸 (jiàn)
Gradually.
How 漸 is written
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 漸
- Simplified
- 渐
漸 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- jiān
- to imbue
- jiàn
- gradual; gradually
Common words using 漸
- 漸漸 jiànjiàn
- gradually
- 逐漸 zhújiàn
- gradually
- 日漸 rìjiàn
- to progress (or increase, change etc) day by day; more (or better etc) with each passing day
- 循序漸進 xúnxùjiànjìn
- in sequence, step by step (idiom); to make steady progress incrementally
- 漸弱 jiànruò
- to fade out; gradually weakening; diminuendo
- 漸次 jiàncì
- gradually; one by one
- 漸行漸遠 jiànxíngjiànyuǎn
- gradually proceed, gradually get further apart
- 漸變 jiànbiàn
- gradual change
- 漸近 jiànjìn
- approximation
- 漸進 jiànjìn
- progress step by step; gradual progress; to move forward (slowly)
- 防微杜漸 fángwēidùjiàn
- to nip in the bud (idiom)
漸 in a sentence
太陽出來後，天氣漸漸變暖了。
Tàiyáng chūlái hòu, tiānqì jiànjiàn biàn nuǎn le.
“After the sun came out, the weather gradually became warmer.”
How common is 漸?
漸 is the 868th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 86.8% of all running text.
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