jǐng

hole

Evolution

穽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
穽 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
Definitions

 

jǐng

hole; pitfall, trap

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jǐng

variant of [jǐng]

Most common words with 穽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

陷阱

pitfall

trap

势阱

potential well (physics)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.7275% of movies

2262nd most common character in movies

3224th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+7A7D

Shuowen

“阱,陷也。从,从井,井亦聲。穽,阱或从穴。汬,古文阱从水。”


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