qìng
celebrate
Original meaning:
good
Depicts a legendary animal considered to be good (廌) and a heart (心).
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 慶
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to celebrate | ||
Chongqing city (Chungking), formerly in Sichuan province, a municipality since 1997, short name 渝[Yú] | ||
to celebrate | ||
to rejoice | ||
celebration |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[kʰ]raŋ-s | khjaengH | qìng | happy, rejoice |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 26.8941% of movies
1283rd most common character in movies
1269th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6176 |
Shuowen | “慶，行賀人也。从心，从夊，吉禮以鹿皮為贄，故从鹿省。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.791-792
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