imperial domain

Components
戈 sound component

  Sound component

  

spear

田 meaning component

  Meaning component

tián

  

field

land

Evolution

畿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

imperial domain; area near capital; territory around the capital

Most common words with 畿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

territory around the capital

京畿

Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, surrounding Seoul and Incheon, capital Suweon City 水原市[Shuǐ​yuán​shì]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ə[r] (dialect: *-r > *-j?)

gj+j

royal domain


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4401st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+757F

Shuowen

“畿,天子千里地。以遠近言之,則言畿也。从田,幾省聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License