| 剪 | [ jiǎn ] surname Jian |
| 剪 | [ jiǎn ] scissors, shears, clippers, CL:把[ba3], to cut with scissors, to trim, to wipe out or exterminate |
| 剪刀 | [ jiǎn daō ] scissors, CL:把[ba3] |
| 剪刀差 | [ jiǎn daō chā ] prices scissor (caught between low income and high prices) |
| 剪刀石頭布 | [ jiǎn daō shí tou bù ] rock-paper-scissors (game) |
| 剪切 | [ jiǎn qiē ] to shear, shearing (force), (computing) to cut (as in "cut-and-paste") |
| 剪切力 | [ jiǎn qiē lì ] shear, shearing force |
| 剪切形變 | [ jiǎn qiē xíng biàn ] shearing, shear deformation |
| 剪力 | [ jiǎn lì ] shear, shearing force |
| 剪嘴鷗 | [ jiǎn zuǐ oū ] (bird species of China) Indian skimmer (Rynchops albicollis) |
| 剪報 | [ jiǎn baò ] newspaper cutting, clippings |
| 剪子 | [ jiǎn zi ] clippers, scissors, shears, CL:把[ba3] |
| 剪彩 | [ jiǎn caǐ ] to cut the ribbon (at a launching or opening ceremony) |
| 剪影 | [ jiǎn yǐng ] paper-cut silhouette, outline, sketch |
| 剪徑 | [ jiǎn jìng ] to waylay and rob, highway robbery |
| 剪應力 | [ jiǎn yìng lì ] shear stress |
| 剪成 | [ jiǎn chéng ] cut into |
| 剪掉 | [ jiǎn ] to cut off, to cut away, to trim |
| 剪接 | [ jiǎn jiē ] film-editing, montage, to cut or edit film |
| 剪斷 | [ jiǎn duàn ] to cut, to snip |
| 剪枝 | [ jiǎn zhī ] to prune (branches etc) |
| 剪紙 | [ jiǎn zhǐ ] papercutting (Chinese folk art), to make paper cutouts |
| 剪綵 | [ jiǎn caǐ ] to cut the ribbon (at an opening) |
| 剪草機 | [ jiǎn caǒ jī ] lawnmower |
| 剪草除根 | [ jiǎn caǒ chú gēn ] lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch, to eradicate |
| 剪裁 | [ jiǎn caí ] to tailor (clothes), to trim (expenditure) |
| 剪貼板 | [ jiǎn tiē bǎn ] clipboard (computing) |
| 剪貼簿 | [ jiǎn tiē bù ] scrapbook |
| 剪輯 | [ jiǎn jí ] to edit (video images, film) |
| 剪除 | [ jiǎn chú ] to eradicate, to exterminate |
| 剪頭髮 | [ jiǎn toú fa ] (to get a) haircut |
| ⇒ 修剪 | [ xiū jiǎn ] to prune, to trim |
| ⇒ 刪剪 | [ shān jiǎn ] to cut (from a movie etc), to censor |
| ⇒ 包剪錘 | [ baō jiǎn chuí ] rock-paper-scissors (game) |
| ⇒ 反剪 | [ fǎn jiǎn ] with hands behind one's back, trussed |
| ⇒ 大剪刀 | [ dà jiǎn daō ] shears, large scissors, secateurs |
| ⇒ 打薄剪刀 | [ dǎ baó jiǎn daō ] thinning scissors |
| ⇒ 指甲剪 | [ zhǐ jia jiǎn ] nail clipper |
| ⇒ 洗剪吹 | [ xǐ jiǎn chuī ] shampoo, haircut and blow-dry |
| ⇒ 疏剪 | [ shū jiǎn ] to prune |
| ⇒ 石頭、剪子、布 | [ shí tou jiǎn zi bù ] rock-paper-scissors (hand game) |
| ⇒ 裁剪 | [ caí jiǎn ] to cut out |