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鉴
鋻
jiàn
1. variant of [[鑑|鉴<jiàn>]]
Common • Top 7%

Character Breakdown (Single character)

鉴
jiàn
mirror, looking glass; to reflect
HSK 6 13 丶

Compound Words (20)

评鉴
píngjiàn
evaluation
鉴价
jiànjià
to appraise
鉴别
jiànbié
to differentiate
HSK 6
鉴定
jiàndìng
to appraise
HSK 6
鉴识
jiànshí
to identify
鉴赏
jiànshǎng
to appreciate
鉴于
jiànyú
in view of
HSK 6
年鉴
niánjiàn
annual report
鉴戒
jiànjiè
lesson from events of the past
图鉴
tújiàn
illustrated handbook
借鉴
jièjiàn
to use other people's experience
HSK 6
印鉴
yìnjiàn
seal impression
品鉴
pǐnjiàn
to judge
洞鉴
dòngjiàn
to examine deeply
鉴真
Jiànzhēn
Jianzhen or Ganjin (688-763), Tang dynastic Buddhist monk, who crossed to Japan after several unsuccessful attempts, influential in Japanese Buddhism
鉴赏家
jiànshǎngjiā
connoisseur
龙龛手鉴
LóngkānShǒujiàn
Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed into 240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical
前车之鉴
qiánchēzhījiàn
to learn a lesson from the mistakes of one's predecessor (idiom)
后车之鉴
hòuchēzhījiàn
lit. warning to the following cart (idiom); don't follow the track of an overturned cart
德法年鉴
DéFǎNiánjiàn
Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher (published once in 1844 by Karl Marx and bourgeois radical Arnold Ruge)

Alternate Entries

鉴
jiàn
old variant of [[鑒|鉴<jiàn>]]
鉴
jiàn
example / mirror / to view / reflection / to reflect / to inspect / to warn / (ancient bronze mirror)
鉴
jiàn
variant of [[鑑|鉴<jiàn>]]

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
6
Character Frequency Rank
1,654
Word Frequency Rank
5,519 of 84,292