jīng
whale
Phonosemantic compound. 魚 represents the meaning and 京 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]raŋ | gjaeng | jīng | whale |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.8192% of movies
2555th most common character in movies
2618th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9BE8 |
Shuowen | “,海大魚也。从魚,畺聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘取其鯢。’鯨,或从京。” |
Sources
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