qīn, qìng
relatives
Original meaning:
chestnut tree
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 辛 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "chestnut". This character was repurposed during character simplification as the simplified form of 親.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 93.0963% of movies
191st most common character in movies
362nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+4EB2 |
Shuowen | “𣓀,果實如小栗。从木,辛聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘女摯不過栗。’” |
Sources
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