剪

jiǎn

scissors; cut, divide, separate

How to write 剪, stroke by stroke

surname Jian; (bound form) scissors or similar tool; to cut as with scissors; (bound form) to wipe out; to exterminate; to edit (video, audio etc)

Pictophonetic: semantic 刀 (knife), phonetic 前

Made of 前 + 刀

剪刀jiǎn dāoscissors
剪掉jiǎn diàoto cut off; to cut away; to trim
剪辑jiǎn jíto edit (raw footage: film, video, audio etc); edited version
修剪xiū jiǎnto prune; to trim
剪头发jiǎn tóu fa(to get a) haircut
剪断jiǎn duànto cut; to snip
剪报jiǎn bàonewspaper cutting; clippings
剪子jiǎn ziclippers; scissors; shears
剪接jiǎn jiēto edit (raw footage: film, video, audio etc); (genetics) to splice
剪刀差jiǎn dāo chāprices scissor (caught between low income and high prices)
剪刀手jiǎn dāo shǒuV sign (hand gesture)
剪切jiǎn qiēto cut (with scissors or similar tool); to shear; (geology) shear; (computing) to cut (as in "cut-and-paste")

你该剪头发了。
nǐ gāi jiǎn tóu fa le 。
You should get your hair cut.
书桌上有一把剪刀。
shū zhuō shàng yǒu yì bǎ jiǎn dāo 。
There is a pair of scissors on the desk.
他为羊只修剪羊毛。
tā wèi yáng zhī xiū jiǎn yáng máo 。
He clipped the sheep.
他把头发剪短了。
tā bǎ tóu fa jiǎn duǎn le 。
He had his hair cut short.
我有一本剪报夹。
wǒ yǒu yì běn jiǎn bào jiá 。
I have a newspaper clipping file.