in English

jiān
to annihilate / abbr. for 殲擊機|歼击机[jian1 ji1 ji1], fighter plane

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 殲, the traditional character: 歼 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 殲 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 殲 Clerical script 東漢

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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