涓 — Chinese character
涓
juān
brook, stream; pure; to select
- Pinyin
- juān
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 氵 肙
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 肙
- Japanese
- 涓 as a kanji
Common words with 涓
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 涓涓 | juān juān | a trickle; tiny stream |
| 涓滴 | juān dī | tiny stream; trickle |
| 涓吉 | juān jí | to choose an auspicious day |
| 涓埃 | juān āi | tiny stream of dust; tiny things |
| 涓埃之力 | juān āi zhī lì | negligible force (idiom); tiny force |
| 涓滴归公 (涓滴歸公) | juān dī guī gōng | every drop returns to the public good (idiom); not one penny is misused |
English words written with 涓
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.