jǐngdòng

bowl of food

Evolution

丼 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
丼 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
丼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

jǐng

bowl of food; well; old variant of [jǐng]

 

dòng

(Tw) bowl of boiled rice with other food on top (loanword from Japanese "donburi")

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.tseŋʔ

tsjengX

jǐng

a well


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+4E3C

Shuowen

“井,八家一井。象構韓形。‧,之象也。古者伯益初作井。”


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