jǐn
time of famine or crop failure
A time of little 堇 food 飠; 堇 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 饉
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
time of famine or crop failure | ||
famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]rə[r]-s | ginH | jìn | famine |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4473rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9949 |
Shuowen | “饉，蔬不孰為饉。从食，堇聲。” |
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