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景

jǐng

scenery

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 京 represents the sound.

Components
日 meaning component

日  Meaning component

rì

  

sun

京 sound component

京  Sound component

jīng

  

capital city

Evolution

景 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
景 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
景 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
景 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
景 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

景  

jǐng

scenery, view; conditions; bright; circumstance; scenery

景  

Jǐng

surname Jing

Most common words with 景
Freq.
Word
Meaning

背景

background

场景

scene

风景

scenery

情景

scene

景

bright

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (1 verified)

影 憬

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.qraŋʔ

kjaengX

jǐng

bright; image

*[C.q]raŋʔ

kjaengX

jǐng

a kind of coat


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 34.7269% of movies

1130th most common character in movies

814th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+666F

Shuowen

“景，光也。从日，京聲。”


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