Chinese Character Wiki

颈

jǐng

neck

Components
页 meaning component

页  Meaning component

yè, xié

  

page

head

Evolution

颈 Bronze script Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Bronze script

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
颈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Traditional script

Modern
颈 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

颈 (頸) 

jǐng

neck, throat; neck

Most common words with 颈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

颈

neck

瓶颈

bottleneck

颈部

neck

颈椎

cervical vertebra

长颈鹿

giraffe

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

Strokes

11

Traditional

頸

Unicode

U+9888


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