qín
industrious
Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning and 堇 represents the sound. Simplified form of 懃.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 勤
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
diligent | ||
hardworking | ||
hardworking | ||
logistics | ||
to be on duty (of a security guard etc) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ər | gj+n | qín | toil, diligent, devoted |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 11.7572% of movies
1883rd most common character in movies
1565th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+52E4 |
Shuowen | “勤，勞也。从力，堇聲。” |
Sources
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