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青

qīng

green or blue

Phonosemantic compound. 生 represents the meaning and 井 represents the sound.

Components
生 meaning component

生  Meaning component

shēng

  

life

井 sound component

井  Sound component

jǐng

  

well

Evolution

青 Seal script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
青 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

青  

qīng

blue, green, black; young; green; blue; black; youth; young (of people)

青  

Qīng

abbr. for 青海[Qīng​hǎi], Qinghai Province

Most common words with 青
Freq.
Word
Meaning

青年

youth

青

youth

青少年

adolescent

青春

youth

青蛙

frog

Component uses

Meaning component in 5 characters (0 verified)

靖 倩 靛 婧 锖

Sound component in 25 characters (10 verified)

情 清 請 请 精 静 靜 睛 猜 晴 靖 倩 菁 蜻 氰 靓 靚 婧 锖 鯖 鲭 腈 箐 鼱 圊

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s.r̥]ˤeŋ

tsheng

qīng

green or blue


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 26.4616% of movies

1245th most common character in movies

497th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+9752

Shuowen

“青，東方色也。木生火，从生丹，丹青之信言象然。，古文青。”


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