jǐn
brilliance of gems
Phonosemantic compound. 王 represents the meaning and 堇 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3799th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+747E |
Shuowen | “瑾，瑾瑜，美玉也。从玉，堇聲。” |
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