qīn
respect
Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 欠 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 欽
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to admire | ||
to respect | ||
Yeltsin (name) | ||
admirable | ||
imperial envoy |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.5469% of movies
2858th most common character in movies
2147th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6B3D |
Shuowen | “欽,欠皃。从欠,金聲。” |
Sources
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