jǐn
only
Simplified from 僅. Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 堇 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 仅
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
barely | ||
not only (this one) | ||
barely | ||
second only to... | ||
not only that, but ... |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 48.1339% of movies
751st most common character in movies
494th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+4EC5 |
Shuowen | “付，與也。从寸，持物對人。” |
Sources
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