jiàn

mirror

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
jīn metal
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

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica

jiàn mirror Simplified

Components

Meaning component
jīn metal

metal

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode