檢

See also 检, and 検

Translingual

shinjitai	検
simplified	检
traditional	檢

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 + phonetic 僉.

Han character

檢 (radical 75 木+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 木人一人 (DOMO), four-corner 4898₆)

1. check
2. examine

Descendants

• Japanese shinjitai: 検
• Simplified Chinese: 检

References

• KangXi: page 557, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15684
• Dae Jaweon: page 946, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1303, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6AA2

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Cantonese

Hanzi

檢 (simplified 检, Yale gim2)

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Japanese

Kanji

檢

Readings

• On: けん (ken)
• Kun: しらべる (shiraberu)

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Korean

Hanja

檢 (hangeul 검, revised geom, McCune-Reischauer kŏm, Yale kem)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

檢 (simplified 检, pinyin jiǎn (jian3), sà (sa4), Wade-Giles chien³, sa⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

檢 (kiểm, ghém)