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緊

jǐn

tense

Phonosemantic compound. 臤 represents the sound, while 糸 represents the meaning.

Components
臤 sound component

臤  Sound component

qiān

  

to gouge out an eye

糸 meaning component

糸  Meaning component

mì

  

silk

Depicts a thread being tightened.

Evolution

緊 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
緊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
緊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

紧 (緊) 

jǐn

tense, tight, taut; firm, secure; tight; strict; close at hand; near; urgent; tense; hard up; short of money; to tighten

Most common words with 緊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

紧张

nervous

紧

tight

紧急

urgent

赶紧

hurriedly

抓紧

to grasp firmly

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.qi[n]ʔ (I! no palatalization)

kjinX

jǐn

tight


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 75.3804% of movies

476th most common character in movies

560th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

紧

Unicode

U+7DCA

Shuowen

“緊，纏絲急也。从臤，从絲省。”


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