Chinese Character Wiki

脛

jìng

shinbone

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 巠 represents the sound.

Components
⺼ meaning component

⺼  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

巠 sound component

巠  Sound component

jīng

  

warp (textile)

Evolution

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

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
脛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

胫 (脛) 

jìng

shinbone; calf of leg; lower part of leg

Most common words with 脛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

胫骨

tibia

胫

lower part of leg

不胫而走

to get round fast

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-kʰˤeŋ-s

hengH

jìng

leg, shank


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4209th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

胫

Unicode

U+811B

Shuowen

“脛，胻也。从肉，巠聲。”


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