jǐn
only
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 堇 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 僅
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
barely | ||
not only (this one) | ||
barely | ||
second only to... | ||
not only that, but ... |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]rə[r]-s | ginH | jìn | barely |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 48.1339% of movies
751st most common character in movies
494th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+50C5 |
Shuowen | “僅，材能也。从人，堇聲。” |
Sources
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