Chinese Character Wiki
徑

jìng

narrow path

Phonosemantic compound. 彳 represents the meaning and 巠 represents the sound.

Components
彳 meaning component

彳  Meaning component

chì

  

walk

彳 is a component form of 行.

巠 sound component

巠  Sound component

jīng

  

warp (textile)

Evolution

徑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
徑 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
徑 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
徑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

径 (徑) 

jìng

narrow path; diameter; direct; footpath; track; straight; directly

Most common words with 徑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

途径

way

口径

caliber

直径

diameter

捷径

shortcut

径

track

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ˤeŋ-s

kengH

jìng

small path


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.0500% of movies

1705th most common character in movies

1307th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

径

Unicode

U+5F91

Shuowen

“徑，步道也。从彳，巠聲。”


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