jìng
compete
Pictograph of two people side-by-side competing with each other.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 競
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to compete | ||
to run for office | ||
race | ||
competitive strength | ||
to compete |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-kraŋʔ-s (~ C-kraŋʔ-s) | gjaengH | jìng | strive; compete |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 21.4480% of movies
1273rd most common character in movies
1100th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7AF6 |
Shuowen | “競，彊語也。一曰逐也。从誩，从二人。” |
Sources
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