堅 — Chinese character
堅
jiān
hard, strong; firm, resolute
- Pinyin
- jiān
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 臤 土
- Formation
- ideographic — A stern 臤 fortification 土; 臤 also provides the pronunciation
- Simplified
- 坚
- Japanese
- 堅 as a kanji
堅 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 4 · Analects 2 · Art of War 1 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 12
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 43
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 76
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 78
- Analects 9.10
- Analects 17.7
- Art of War 3.10
- Hexagram 2
- Mencius 1A.5
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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