jìng

pacify

As peaceful  as nature  also provides the pronunciation

Components
立 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

stand

青 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

qīng

  

green or blue

Evolution

靖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
靖 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
靖 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
靖 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
靖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jìng

pacify; appease; calm, peaceful; quiet; peaceful; to make tranquil; to pacify

 

Jìng

surname Jing

Most common words with 靖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

quiet

靖国神社

Yasukuni Shrine, Shinto shrine in Tokyo to Japanese war dead, controversial as burial ground of several Class A war criminals

靖宇

Jingyu county in Baishan 白山, Jilin

李靖

Li Jing (570-649 AD), Tang Dynasty general and purported author of "Duke Li of Wei Answering Emperor Taizong of Tang" 唐太宗李衛公問對|唐太宗李卫公问对[Táng​Tài​zōng​Lǐ​Wèi​Gōng​Wèn​duì], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wǔ​jīng​Qī​shū]

曲靖

Qujing prefecture level city in Yunnan

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2545th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+9756

Shuowen

“靖,立竫也。从立,青聲。一曰細皃。”


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