qìn

soak into

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

心 sound component

  Sound component

xīn

  

heart

Evolution

沁 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
沁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
沁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

qìn

soak into, seep in, percolate; to seep; to percolate

Most common words with 沁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to seep

沁人心脾

to gladden the heart

科尔沁

Horqin or Xorchin, famous Mongolian archer

沁源

Qingyuan county in Changzhi 長治|长治[Cháng​zhì], Shanxi

沁阳市

Qinyang county level city in Jiaozuo 焦作[Jiāo​zuò], Henan

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3025th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6C81

Shuowen

“沁,水。出上黨羊頭山,東南入河。从水,心聲。”


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