qīng
light and quick, agile
Phonosemantic compound. 車 represents the meaning and 巠 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[kʰ]eŋ (no palatalization before *-eŋ?) | khjieng | qīng | light (≠ heavy) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 70.7512% of movies
569th most common character in movies
460th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8F15 |
Shuowen | “輕，輕車也。从車，巠聲。” |
Sources
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