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jiàn

mirror

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

鑑 mirror Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 監 represents the sound.

Components

釒
釒 Meaning component
jīn metal

釒 is a component form of 金.

監
監 Sound component
jiān watch carefully

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkraːm
kraːms
kraːms

說文解字

大盆也。一曰監諸，可以取明水於月。从金監聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)