剑 jiàn sword

Traditional: 劍
Measure word: 口, 把

HSK 6 — the top of the six old levels: 2,500 new words, 5,000 in all. You read and discuss almost anything. In HSK 3.0, 剑 is in band 6. HSK 6 explained

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中剑。

It means a sword. At a museum, a girl stops in front of a glass case holding an old one. She tugs her mother's sleeve and asks to look closer. Want to try it out loud?

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Stroke order

剑 is written in 9 strokes.

剑 — the Chinese character for sword (jiàn), stroke diagram — Stroke diagram for 剑 — sword

Senses

double-edged sword
classifier for blows of a sword

Related words

Where 剑 lives

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剑 is pronounced jiàn and means “sword”.