jiàn

assume

Components

Meaning component
rén person

person

Sound component
cǎn, qián, jiàn if

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsemHtsˤ[i]m-serr
Zhengzhangʔslɯːms

說文解字

假也。从人朁聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica