笺
箋jiān
#3,723 most
frequent character
letter, note-paper
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
笺 jiān pairs 𥫗 bamboo with 戋 jiān, which gives the sound. It first meant a kind of commentary in old texts. The sense grew to annotate and to writing paper.
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