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惊

jīng

startle, frighten

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 京 represents the sound. Simplified form of 驚.

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

京 sound component

京  Sound component

jīng

  

capital city

Evolution

惊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
惊 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
惊 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
惊 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

惊 (驚) 

jīng

frighten, surprise, startle; to startle; to be frightened; to be scared; alarm

Most common words with 惊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

惊喜

nice surprise

惊讶

amazed

惊

to startle

吃惊

to be startled

震惊

to shock

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 65.8337% of movies

653rd most common character in movies

659th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

驚

Unicode

U+60CA


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