jìng

modest

Like a young  woman  also provides the pronunciation

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

青 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

qīng

  

green or blue

Evolution

婧 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
婧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
婧 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jìng

modest; supple; (of woman) slender; delicate; virtuous

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5759th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5A67

Shuowen

“婧,竦立也。从女,青聲。一曰有才也。讀若韭菁。”


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