儉 — Chinese character
儉
jiǎn
temperate, frugal, economical
- Pinyin
- jiǎn
- Radical
- 9 ⼈ (Man)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 亻 僉
- Formation
- pictophonetic — person; meaning component 亻; sound component 僉
- Simplified
- 俭
- Japanese
- 儉 as a kanji
儉 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 3 · Analects 6 · Mencius 7 · Zhuangzi 2
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 67
- Analects 1.10
- Analects 3.4
- Analects 3.22
- Analects 7.35
- Analects 9.3
- Mencius 2B.7
- Mencius 3A.3
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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