jīng
flower of leek family
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 青 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 菁
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
lush | ||
turnip | ||
the cream | ||
lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers | ||
turnip |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3321st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+83C1 |
Shuowen | “菁，韭華也。从艸，青聲。” |
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