Chinese symbol for “banister”
槛
jiàn
Traditional: 檻
banister; balustrade; cage for animal or prisoner; to transport caged prisoner on a cart
The closest CC-CEDICT match for banister is 槛 (jiàn), defined as: banister; balustrade; cage for animal or prisoner; to transport caged prisoner on a cart.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “banister”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 槛.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 门槛 (門檻) | mén kǎn | doorstep; sill |
| 槛车 (檻車) | jiàn chē | cart with cage, used to escort prisoner |
| 下槛 (下檻) | xià kǎn | (architecture) doorsill |
| 朱云折槛 (朱雲折檻) | zhū yún zhé jiàn | (idiom) Zhu Yun breaks the railing (Zhu Yun was a Han Dynasty official who accused the emperor's tutor of corruption, and when sentenced to |
| 核门槛 (核門檻) | hé mén jiàn | nuclear threshold |
| 槛花笼鹤 (檻花籠鶴) | jiàn huā lóng hè | a flower in a cage, a crane in a basket (idiom); prisoner |
See also: Japanese symbol for “banister”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.