剪 — Chinese character
剪
jiǎn
scissors; to cut, to divide, to separate
- Pinyin
- jiǎn
- Radical
- 18 ⼑ (Knife)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 前 刀
- Formation
- pictophonetic — knife; meaning component 刀; sound component 前
- Japanese
- 剪 as a kanji
Common words with 剪
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 剪辑 (剪輯) | jiǎn jí | to edit (raw footage: film, video, audio etc); edited version |
| 剪刀 | jiǎn dāo | scissors; measure word: 把 (bǎ) |
| 修剪 | xiū jiǎn | to prune; to trim |
| 剪纸 (剪紙) | jiǎn zhǐ | papercutting (Chinese folk art); to make paper cutouts |
| 剪掉 | jiǎn diào | to cut off; to cut away |
| 剪影 | jiǎn yǐng | paper-cut silhouette; outline |
| 裁剪 | cái jiǎn | to cut out |
| 剪接 | jiǎn jiē | to edit (raw footage: film, video, audio etc); (genetics) to splice |
| 剪切 | jiǎn qiē | to cut (with scissors or similar tool); to shear; (geology) shear |
| 剪裁 | jiǎn cái | to tailor (clothes); to trim (expenditure) |
| 剪彩 | jiǎn cǎi | to cut the ribbon (at a launching or opening ceremony) |
| 剪断 (剪斷) | jiǎn duàn | to cut; to snip |
English words written with 剪
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.