in English

juàn
thin, tough silk fabric

How it used to be written

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

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

Examples

  • 我在烫我的手绢。

    I‘m ironing my handkerchiefs.

All example sentences with 绢

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