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jiàn

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jiàn Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
jiàn | jian4
English translation
to recommend; to recur, to repeat

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About jiàn

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Number of strokes

17

Traditional form

jiàn

Contains the radical

cǎo

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

perennial grass

Etymology of jiàn

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

艹廌

Semantic compound

cǎo

Phonetic compound

zhì

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. cǎo represents the meaning and cún represents the sound. Simplified form of jiàn . Based on the original meaning "straw mat". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

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Words with jiàn

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
推荐 tuījiàn to recommend推薦
推荐信 tuī jiàn xìn recommendation letter推薦信
引荐 yǐn jiàn to recommend sb引薦
自荐 zì jiàn to recommend oneself (for a job)自薦
jiàn grass jiàn
举荐 jǔ jiàn to recommend舉薦
毛遂自荐 Máo Suì zì jiàn Mao Sui recommends himself (idiom); to offer one's services (in the style of Mao Sui offering his services to king of Chu Chǔ of the Warring states)毛遂自薦
荐举 jiàn jǔ to nominate薦舉
荐引 jiàn yǐn to introduce薦引
饥馑荐臻 jī jǐn jiàn zhēn famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)饑饉薦臻

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