jìng

quiet

Both and are sound components.

Components
青 sound component

  Sound component

qīng

  

green or blue

爭 sound component

  Sound component

zhēng

  

strife, quarrel

Evolution

靜 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
靜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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jìng

quiet, still, motionless; gentle; still; calm; quiet; not moving

Most common words with 靜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

冷静

calm

安静

quiet

still

平静

tranquil

静脉

vein

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 65.8337% of movies

576th most common character in movies

722nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+975C

Shuowen

“靜,審也。从青,爭聲。”


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