qīnqìng

relatives

Original meaning: 

chestnut tree

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "chestnut". This character was repurposed during character simplification as the simplified form of .

Components
辛 sound component

  Sound component

xīn

  

laborious

木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

Evolution

亲 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
亲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
亲 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
亲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

qīn

relatives, parents; intimate; parent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative; related; marriage; bride; close; in person; first-hand; in favor of; pro-; to kiss; (Internet slang) dear

() 

qìng

parents-in-law of one's offspring

Most common words with 亲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

父亲

father

亲爱

dear

parent

母亲

mother

亲自

personally

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (1 verified)

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 93.0963% of movies

191st most common character in movies

362nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+4EB2

Shuowen

“𣓀,果實如小栗。从木,辛聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘女摯不過栗。’”


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