椷 jiān

1. jiān noun a box; a casket
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '椷'; Guoyu '椷' n 1; Kroll 2015 '椷' 1, p. 195; Mathews 1931 '椷', p. 113; Unihan '椷')
2. jiān noun a letter; an envelope
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As a variant of 缄 (CC-CEDICT '椷'; Guoyu '椷' n 2; Kroll 2015 '椷' hán, p. 195; Mathews 1931 '椷', p. 113; Unihan '椷')
3. jiān noun goblet
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '椷' 1a, p. 195)

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷二百九十三 列傳第一百八十一 忠義五 Volume 293 Biographies 181: Loyal Officials 5 History of Ming 明史 — count: 3
• 卷三百三十 列傳第二百十八 西域二 Volume 330 Biographies 218: Western Regions 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 1
• 《天官書》 Astronomy Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 1
• 卷二十六 天文志 Volume 26: Treatise on Astronomy Book of Han 漢書 — count: 1
• 《卷七‧木部》 Scroll 7, Mù Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 1

Collocations

• 可椷 (可椷) 閒可椷劍 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《天官書》 Astronomy — count: 2
• 椷剑 (椷劍) 閒可椷劍 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《天官書》 Astronomy — count: 2