(jiān) - firm, hard in Mandarin
jiānTraditional: 坚
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Translation
firm, hard
Word origin
A phono-semantic character (traditional 堅): the earth radical 土 gives the sense of hard ground, with the upper element supplying the sound, yielding firm or hard.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 土 (earth radical) + phonetic element (traditional 堅)
Stroke order
坚
Examples
。
He kept on persisting.
。
I stand by my view.
。
Persistence is victory.
硬。
This stone is very hard.
。
She has a strong will.
坚 (jiān) means firm or solid, and powers 坚持 (jiān chí), to persist.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 坚.
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