jǐn

brocade

Silk  inlaid with gold  also provides the pronunciation

Components
釒 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

帛 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silks

Evolution

錦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
錦 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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jǐn

brocade, tapestry; embroidered; brocade; embroidered work; bright

Most common words with 錦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

锦标赛

championships

胡锦涛

Hu Jintao (1942-), General Secretary of the CPC 2002-2012, president of the PRC 2003-2013

brocade

世锦赛

world championship

什锦

mixed

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.k(r)[ə]mʔ

kimX

jǐn

brocade


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.7642% of movies

2448th most common character in movies

1947th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+9326

Shuowen

“錦,襄邑織文。从帛,金聲。”


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