jīn

ferry

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

聿 sound component

  Sound component

  

writing brush

Evolution

津 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
津 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
津 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
津 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jīn

ferry; saliva; ford; sweat; a ferry crossing; a ford (river crossing); abbr. for Tianjin 天津

Most common words with 津
Freq.
Word
Meaning

天津

Tianjin, a municipality in northeast China, abbr. 津

saliva

牛津

Oxford (city in England)

津贴

allowance

天津市

Tianjin, a municipality in northeast China, abbr. 津