jīng
fearful
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 兢
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
trembling with fear | ||
cautious and conscientious | ||
to be fearful | ||
shaking with fear | ||
to tremble |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k(r)əŋ | king | jīng | cautious |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3117th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+5162 |
Shuowen | “，競也。从二兄，二兄，競意。从丰聲。讀若矜。一曰：兢，敬也。” |
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