件

See also: 仵, 仟, 任, and 伴

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 亻 (“man”) + 牛 (“cow”) – man and cow form a unit.

Han character

件 (radical 9 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人竹手 (OHQ), four-corner 2520₀, composition ⿰亻牛)

1. numerary adjunct for article
2. item
3. matter

References

• KangXi: page 94, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 410
• Dae Jaweon: page 200, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 122, character 3
• Unihan data for U+4EF6

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		件

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiàn (jian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gin⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): khien
• Min Nan (POJ): kiāⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chien⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiann
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gin⁶
    • Yale: gihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gin⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /kiːn²²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khien
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /kʰi̯en⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiāⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: kiānn
    • IPA (Taipei): /kiã³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiã²²/

Definitions

件

1. document; letter

   文件  ―  wénjiàn  ―  document, file

   郵件 / 邮件  ―  yóujiàn  ―  mail

   信件  ―  xìnjiàn  ―  letter

   證件 / 证件  ―  zhèngjiàn  ―  certificate, document, ID

2. item; component

   部件  ―  bùjiàn  ―  parts, components

   零件  ―  língjiàn  ―  part, component

   备件  ―  bèijiàn  ―  spare part

   软件  ―  ruǎnjiàn  ―  software

Classifier

件

1. classifier for events
2. classifier for clothes

   一件衬衫  ―  yī jiàn chènshān  ―  a shirt

3. classifier for things

   一件东西  ―  yī jiàn dōngxī  ―  a thing

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Japanese

Kanji

件

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: げん (gen) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: けん (ken)
• Kun: くだり (kudari), くだん (kudan)

Compounds

• 件件
• 件数
• 件名
• 事件
• 条件

Noun

件 (hiragana けん, romaji ken)

1. case
2. matter
3. subject

件 (hiragana くだん, romaji kudan)

件 (くだり, kudari)

1. example
2. precedent
   • 件の[人]
   •  :くだんの[ひと]
   •  :kudan no [hito]
   •  :the [person] in question; the said [person]

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Korean

Hanja

件 (geon) (hangeul 건, revised geon, McCune-Reischauer kŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

件 (kiện, kịn, kẹn)

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References

• Nom Foundation