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淨

jìng

clean

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 爭 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

爭 sound component

爭  Sound component

zhēng

  

strife, quarrel

Evolution

淨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
淨 Seal script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Seal script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
淨 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
淨 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
淨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

淨  

jìng

pure, clean, unspoiled

净 (淨) 

jìng

clean; completely; only; net (income, exports etc); (Chinese opera) painted face male role

Most common words with 淨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

干净

clean

净

clean

净化

to purify

净值

net value

纯净

pure

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-tseŋ-s

dzjengH

jìng

clean (adj.)

*m-tseŋ-s

dzjengH

jìng

cleanse (v.t.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 31.5393% of movies

1252nd most common character in movies

1377th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

净凈

Unicode

U+6DE8

Shuowen

“淨，魯北城門池也。从水，爭聲。”


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