qín

salt marsh plant

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

plant

今 sound component

  Sound component

jīn

  

now

Evolution

芩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
芩 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
芩 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

qín

salt marsh plant; Phragmites japonica

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4642nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+82A9

Shuowen

“芩,艸也。从艸,今聲。《詩》曰:‘食野之芩。’”


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