Chinese Character Wiki

殣

jìn

die

Evolution

殣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

殣  

jìn

die; death; to starve to death; die of hunger

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]rə[r]-s

ginH

jǐn

die of starvation


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+6BA3

Shuowen

“殣，道中死人，人所覆也。从歺，堇聲。《詩》曰：‘行有死人，尚或殣之。’”


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