jìn
strap on a horse's breast
Phonosemantic compound. 革 represents the meaning and 斤 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
Not found in HSK word list
3973rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+9773 |
Shuowen | “靳，當膺也。从革，斤聲。” |
Sources
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