椷

缄
jiān
  1. (wooden) box
  2. cup
  3. old variant of 緘 jiān
  4. letter

CEDICT

  1. box
  2. casket

Wiktionary

  1. 木篋、木箱。
  2. 書信。

重編國語辭典

Homographs

緘 jiān
  1. letters
  2. to close
  3. to seal

Containing this entry

三緘其口 sānjiānqíkǒu
  1. (idiom) reluctant to speak about it
  2. tight-lipped
緘 jiān
  1. letters
  2. to close
  3. to seal
緘口不言 jiānkǒubùyán see 閉口不言 bìkǒubùyán
緘默 jiānmò to keep silent

Related entries

包廂 bāoxiāng
  1. box (in a theater or concert hall)
  2. private room (in a restaurant or karaoke)
匣 xiá box
喼 jié
  1. box (dialect)
  2. used to transliterate words with sounds kip-, cap- etc
廂 xiāng
  1. box (in theater)
  2. side room
  3. side
箱 xiāng
  1. box
  2. trunk
  3. chest
奶奶送了我們一箱蘋果。

Grandmother sent us a box of apples.

Source: Tatoeba

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