jiān

box

jiān
variant
to seal
(bound form) to seal; to close; to keep silent as in 缄口 jiān​kǒu or 缄默 jiān​mò; to seal a letter (often used on envelopes following the sender's name)
letter
(bound form) a letter or piece of correspondence
jiān
wooden box
(literary) a wooden container or box
letter
(literary) a letter or written correspondence; used interchangeably with jiān
seal up
to close or seal; specifically used for sealing a letter (often following the sender's name on an envelope)

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.570 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.187 per million

Details

Strokes
13
Unicode
U+6937

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)