jiǎn scissors; shears; clippers

Made up of [ qián front; forward; ahead , dāo knife ]
Made with 11 strokes.
The 'qian' is a rough phonetic while 'knife' underneath suggests cutting

Related characters


Also uses qián component: jiàn (arrow)
Also uses dāo component: chū (at first) fēn (divide) ; suǒ (actually) ; zhào (according to)

Different tone

jiān (narrow) ; jiān (difficult) ; jiān (between) ; jiàn (healthy) ; jiàn (see) ; jiàn ; jiàn (to establish) ; jiàn (gap) ; jiàn (arrow)

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Pronunciation

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