jìn, jìng
strong
Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning and 𢀖 represents the sound. Simplified form of 勁.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 劲
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
strength | ||
strong | ||
suitable | ||
bad | ||
to exert all one's strength |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 37.8984% of movies
1115th most common character in movies
1358th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+52B2 |
Sources
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