jìng
narrow path
Phonosemantic compound. 彳 represents the meaning and 巠 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤeŋ-s | kengH | jìng | small path |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 16.0500% of movies
1705th most common character in movies
1307th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5F91 |
Shuowen | “徑,步道也。从彳,巠聲。” |
Sources
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