jìn

cinders

A used up  fire  also provides the pronunciation

Components
火 meaning component

  Meaning component

huǒ

  

fire

盡 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

jǐnjìn

  

finish, exhaust

Evolution

燼 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
燼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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jìn

cinders, ashes, embers; remnants; ashes; embers

Most common words with 燼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

灰烬

ashes

ashes

余烬

ember

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-tsi[n]ʔ-s

dzinH

jìn

ashes, combusted


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.8581% of movies

3107th most common character in movies

3670th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+71FC


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