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item; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

A man 亻 dividing up a cow 牛

Components 亻牛

piece · Heisig RSH #808

人 person + 牛 cow

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
文件大小	wén jiàn dà xiǎo	file size
电子文件	diàn zǐ wén jiàn	electronic document
电子器件	diàn zǐ qì jiàn	electric equipment
水门事件	Shuǐ mén Shì jiàn	Watergate scandal
红头文件	hóng tóu wén jiàn	red-letterhead document, an official document with the name of the issuing government agen…
发件人	fā jiàn rén	(mail or email) sender
亚罗号事件	Yà luó Hào Shì jiàn	the Arrow Incident of 1856 (used as pretext for the second Opium War)
事件相关电位	shì jiàn xiāng guān diàn wèi	(neuroscience) event-related potential
群体性事件	qún tǐ xìng shì jiàn	mass incident (PRC term for incidents of social unrest, including rioting, melees and peti…
文件格式	wén jiàn gé shì	file format
机密文件	jī mì wén jiàn	secret document
转动件	zhuàn dòng jiàn	rotor
中间件	zhōng jiān jiàn	middleware
自然条件	zì rán tiáo jiàn	natural conditions
证明文件	zhèng míng wén jiàn	identification document; documentary proof
大件	dà jiàn	large; bulky; big-ticket item
文件服务器	wén jiàn fú wù qì	file server
机件	jī jiàn	component (mechanics)
收件人	shōu jiàn rén	recipient (of mail); To: (email header)
三件套式西装	sān jiàn tào shì xī zhuāng	three-piece suit