jìn, jìng
strong
Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning and 巠 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 勁
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
strength | ||
strong | ||
suitable | ||
bad | ||
to exert all one's strength |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*keŋ-s (no palatalization before *-eŋ?) | kjiengH | jìng | strong |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 37.8984% of movies
1115th most common character in movies
1358th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+52C1 |
Shuowen | “勁，彊也。从力，巠聲。” |
Sources
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