jìng
respect
Phonosemantic compound. 茍 represents the sound and 攵 represents the meaning.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 敬
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to respect | ||
to respect | ||
to greet | ||
please (do sth) (deferential form) | ||
respect |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kreŋ(ʔ)-s | kjaengH | jìng | respectful |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 32.5004% of movies
1114th most common character in movies
1209th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+656C |
Shuowen | “敬,肅也。从攴、茍。” |
Sources
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