jìng
mirror
Phonosemantic compound. 金 represents the meaning and 竟 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.qraŋʔ-s | kjaengH | jìng | mirror |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 34.6468% of movies
1003rd most common character in movies
1251st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+93E1 |
Shuowen | “鏡，景也。从金，竟聲。” |
Sources
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