jìngliàng

make up face

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
见 meaning component

  Meaning component

jiànxiàn

  

see

青 sound component

  Sound component

qīng

  

green or blue

Evolution

靓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
靓 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
靓 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
靓 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
靓 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

jìng

make up face; ornament; quiet; (Cant.) pretty; to make up (one's face); to dress; (of one's dress) beautiful

() 

liàng

attractive; good-looking

Most common words with 靓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to dress

靓女

(dialect) pretty girl

靓仔

handsome young man

靓妆

to make up

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.1716% of movies

2679th most common character in movies

4636th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+9753


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