How to Say
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jiàn
Meaning: fence
💡 Wood (木) plus 'exist' (存) = fence that keeps things inside.
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栫 (jiàn) meaning in English —

Detective's note: The character 栫 depicts a wooden fence (木) with the phonetic 存 (cún). It originally meant a pen or enclosure for animals, later generalized to any fence. Rare in modern Chinese, it appears in classical texts and place names.

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