qín

celery

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

斤 sound component

  Sound component

jīn

  

axe

Evolution

芹 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
芹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
芹 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

qín

celery; Chinese celery

Most common words with 芹
Freq.
Word
Meaning

芹菜

celery (Apium graveolens)

Chinese celery

曹雪芹

Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-c. 1764), accepted author of A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢|红楼梦[Hóng​lóu​Mèng]

欧芹

parsley (Petroselinum sativum)

西芹

celery