Jiān
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (archaic) a surname

Examples

Chuánshuō zhōng chángshòu de Péngzǔ, xìng Jiān, míng Kēng.
The legendary long-lived Peng Zu is recorded under the surname Jian, named Keng.

Tips

history
Not used as a common word in modern Chinese. It survives essentially only as a rare surname, most famously the name given in old genealogies to the legendary long-lived 彭祖 (Peng Zu).
register
Onomastic and archaic only — found in old genealogies and legends, not in everyday language.

Components

radical
zhú
bamboo
The bamboo-cap radical ⺮ is the top form of ; here it is purely the radical of a character used only as a surname, with no bamboo meaning.
phonetic
jiān
small; here phonetic
The lower part is the phonetic built on , supplying the sound jiān, the same element seen in and .

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Stroke Order

Jiān