jīng
whale
Phonosemantic compound. 鱼 represents the meaning and 京 represents the sound. Simplified form of 鯨.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernStatistics
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 | 16 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9CB8 |
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