jìnjǐn

to build with soil

Evolution

墐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

jìn

to build with soil, plaster over with mud

 

jǐn

bury; plaster with mud

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]rə[r]-s

ginH

jìn

plaster (v.)

*[g]rə[r]-s

ginH

jìn

bury


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+5890

Shuowen

“墐,涂也。从土,堇聲。”


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