Zi Collection, Page Position: Upper, Radical: Speech (yán), Page 311, Entry 05 Pronounced jiǎn. Also pronounced jiàn. Pronounced jiǎn. The meaning is to pull up or pluck. It is a dialect of the Southern Chu region. Quoted from the "Songs of Chu (Chuci)": "In the morning, plucking the magnolia trees of Pí." Sometimes also written as qiān. Also written as liè. The common form is written as.