鯨 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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jīng

whale

Phonosemantic compound. 魚 represents the meaning and 京 represents the sound.

Components

魚 Meaning component

yú

fish

京 Sound component

jīng

capital city

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

jīng

whale

Most common words with 鯨

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[g]raŋ	gjaeng	jīng	whale

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.8192% of movies

2555th most common character in movies

2618th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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