qīn, qìng
relatives
Phonosemantic compound. 見 represents the meaning and 亲 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[tsʰ]i[n] | tshin | qīn | close; parents |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 93.0963% of movies
191st most common character in movies
362nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+89AA |
Shuowen | “親,至也。从見,亲聲。” |
Sources
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