jìng, liàng
make up face
Phonosemantic compound. 見 represents the meaning and 青 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 靚
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to dress | ||
(dialect) pretty girl | ||
handsome young man | ||
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 | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+975A |
Shuowen | “靚,召也。从見,青聲。” |
Sources
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