qìng
stone chimes
Depicts a hand striking a musical stone chime with a stick.
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
qìng
musical instrument; musical stone; chime stones, ancient percussion instrument made of stone or jade pieces hung in a row and struck as a xylophone
Most common words with 磬
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
chime stones, ancient percussion instrument made of stone or jade pieces hung in a row and struck as a xylophone | ||
musical instrument consisting of a set of chime stones suspended from a beam and struck as a xylophone |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[C.qʰ]ˤeŋ-s | khengH | qìng | suspend |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5327th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+78EC |
Shuowen | “磬，樂石也。从石，殸象縣虡之形。殳，擊之也。古者毋句氏作磬。殸，籀文省；硜，古文从巠。” |
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