King's Kung-Fu& Tai Chi

諫 — Chinese character

諫
jiàn
to admonish, to remonstrate

Pinyin
jiàn
Radical
149 ⾔ (Speech)
Strokes
16
Components
言 柬
Formation
pictophonetic — speech; meaning component 言; sound component 柬
Simplified
谏
Japanese
諫 as a kanji

諫 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Analects 5 · Mencius 11 · Zhuangzi 6

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