jǐn
brocade
Silk 帛 inlaid with gold 釒; 釒 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 錦
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
championships | ||
Hu Jintao (1942-), General Secretary of the CPC 2002-2012, president of the PRC 2003-2013 | ||
brocade | ||
world championship | ||
mixed |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.k(r)[ə]mʔ | kimX | jǐn | brocade |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.7642% of movies
2448th most common character in movies
1947th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9326 |
Shuowen | “錦,襄邑織文。从帛,金聲。” |
Sources
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