鑒
jiàn

mirror

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

Components

金
金 Meaning component
jīn metal
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

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica

鉴 jiàn mirror Simplified

Components

金
金 Meaning component
jīn metal

metal

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode