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縑

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

缣

🇨🇳

fine silk

HSK 10

Objects →Tools →Textiles

jiān

ケン

きぬ

Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

縑

Regular

Modern

Chinese

缣 / 縑 [jiān]

thick waterproof silk

Example Sentences

JAPANESE WORDS (1)

尺縑 [せっけん] #283,607

small amount of silk (i.e. only one foot of cloth)