qīng
green or blue
Phonosemantic compound. 生 represents the meaning and 井 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s.r̥]ˤeŋ | tsheng | qīng | green or blue |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 26.4616% of movies
1245th most common character in movies
497th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+9752 |
Shuowen | “青,東方色也。木生火,从生丹,丹青之信言象然。,古文青。” |
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