jīng

flower of leek family

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

青 sound component

  Sound component

qīng

  

green or blue

Evolution

菁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
菁 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
菁 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
菁 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
菁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jīng

flower of leek family; turnip; leek flower; lush; luxuriant

Most common words with 菁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

lush

芜菁

turnip

菁华

the cream

去芜存菁

lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers

蔓菁

turnip