jiàn

to spy

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarthɛnm-[k]ˤ<r>enspy on, watch

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

𬑗 jiàn, xián Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode