翦 jiǎn

1. jiǎn verb to cut down; to crop
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Archaic variant of 剪; in the sense of 削减 (Guoyu '翦' v 1; Kroll 2015 '翦' 1, p. 197; Unihan '翦'; XHZD '翦' 1, p. 330)
2. jiǎn verb to annihilate; to eliminate
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 消灭 (Guoyu '翦' v 2; Kroll 2015 '翦' 2, p. 197; Unihan '翦')
3. jiǎn proper noun Jian
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (XHZD '翦' 2, p. 330)
4. jiǎn noun shears; scissors
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '翦' 3, p. 197)

Contained in

• 翦绺(翦綹) to cut someone's pocket
• 翦柳 to cut someone's pocket
• 翦我仇敌(翦我仇敵) eliminate the common enemy

Also contained in

翦伯赞 、 王翦

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷一　東周 Chapter 1: Eastern Zhou Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 19
• 卷一百九十八 列傳第一百四十八: 西戎 Volume 198 Biographies 148: Western Regions Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 8
• 卷九十七　列傳第八十五:　西域 Volume 97 Biographies 85: Western Region History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 7
• 《白起王翦列傳》 Biographies of Bai Qi and Wang Jian Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 6
• 卷一　　宋本紀上第一　武帝 少帝 Volume 1 Liu Song Annals 1: Emperor Wu, Emperor Shao History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 6
• 卷二 本紀第二 武帝中 Volume 2 Annals 2: Emperor Wu 2 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 5
• 卷九十五 列傳第五十五 索虜 Volume 95 Biographies 55: Suo Lu Book of Song 宋書 — count: 5
• 卷八十四 列傳第四十四 鄧琬 袁顗 孔覬 Volume 84 Biographies 44: Deng Wan, Yuan Yi, Kong Ji Book of Song 宋書 — count: 5
• 卷19下 景穆十二王下 Volume 19c: Emperor Jingmu Twelve Princes 3 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 5
• 卷三十四　列傳第二十四 顏延之 沈懷文 周朗 Volume 34 Biographies 24: Yan Yanzhi, Shen Huaiwen, Zhou Lang History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 4

Collocations

• 翦发 (翦髮) 擇日翦發為 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷五十三 周黃徐姜申屠列傳 Volume 53: Biographies of Zhou, Huang, Xu, Jiang, Shentu — count: 7
• 翦商 (翦商) 實始翦商 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 魯頌‧駉之什‧閟宮 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Jiong - Bi Gong — count: 6
• 翦灭 (翦滅) 余姑翦滅此而朝食 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 5
• 翦凶 (翦兇) 克翦凶渠 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷七十九 列傳第四十九 謝尚 謝安 Volume 79 Biographies 49: Xie Shang; Xie An — count: 3
• 音翦 (音翦) 戩音翦 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷六十四 吳延史盧趙列傳 Volume 64: Biographies of Wu, Yan, Shi, Lu, Zhao — count: 3
• 克翦 (剋翦) 克翦凶渠 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷七十九 列傳第四十九 謝尚 謝安 Volume 79 Biographies 49: Xie Shang; Xie An — count: 3
• 诛翦 (誅翦) 常有誅翦宦官之意 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷六十九 竇何列傳 Volume 69: Biographies of Dou, He — count: 3
• 不能翦 (不能翦) 不能翦除寇賊 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷五十七 列傳第二十七 羅憲 滕脩 馬隆 胡奮 陶璜 吾彥 張光 趙誘 Volume 57 Biographies 27: Luo Xian; Teng Xiu; Ma Long; Hu Fen; Tao Huang; Wu Yan; Zhang Guang; Zhao You — count: 3
• 始翦 (始翦) 實始翦商 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 魯頌‧駉之什‧閟宮 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Jiong - Bi Gong — count: 3
• 翦群 (翦群) 翦群凶如拉朽 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷八十五 列傳第五十五 劉毅 諸葛長民 何無忌 檀憑之 魏詠之 Volume 85 Biographies 55: Liu Yi; Zhuge Changmin; He Wuji; Tan Pingzhi; Wei Yongzhi — count: 2