gěng
bright
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 耿
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to take troubles to heart (idiom); brooding | ||
loyal and devoted (idiom); faithful and true | ||
bright | ||
honest | ||
bright |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤreŋʔ | keangX | gěng | brilliant; wide awake |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.9542% of movies
2755th most common character in movies
2687th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+803F |
Shuowen | “耿，耳箸頰也。从耳，烓省聲。杜林說，耿，光也。从光，聖省。凡字皆左形右聲，杜林非也。” |
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