jìnyín

to hum

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

金 sound component

  Sound component

jīn

  

metal

Evolution

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

Seal script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jìn

to hum, to intone, etc. to close, to shut; to stutter; to shut one's mouth; Taiwan pr. [yín]

 

yín

variant of [yín]

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yín

old variant of [yín]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+552B

Shuowen

“唫,口急也。从口,金聲。”


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