jǐng
warn
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 敬 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kreŋʔ | kjaengX | jǐng | warn, admonish |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 70.8313% of movies
246th most common character in movies
687th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Unicode | U+8B66 |
Shuowen | “警，戒也。从言，从敬，敬亦聲。” |
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