qín
celery
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 斤 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 芹
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
celery (Apium graveolens) | ||
Chinese celery | ||
Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦[HónglóuMèng] | ||
parsley (Petroselinum sativum) | ||
celery |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.[ɢ]ər | gj+n | qín | cress |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3740th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+82B9 |
Shuowen | “芹,楚葵也。从艸,斤聲。” |
Sources
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