頸 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

jǐng

neck

Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 巠 represents the sound.

Components

頁 Meaning component

yè, xié

(head), page

巠 Sound component

jīng

warp (textile)

Evolution

Bronze script

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

jǐng

neck, throat; neck

Most common words with 頸

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
m-[k]eŋ (no palatalization before -eŋ?)	gjieng	jǐng	neck
[k]eŋʔ (no palatalization before -eŋ?)	kjiengX	jǐng	neck

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.0388% of movies

2290th most common character in movies

2117th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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