jǐng

neck

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
頁 meaning component

  Meaning component

xié

  

(head), page

巠 sound component

  Sound component

jīng

  

warp (textile)

Evolution

頸 Bronze script Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Bronze script

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
頸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
頸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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jǐng

neck, throat; neck

Most common words with 頸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

neck

瓶颈

bottleneck

颈部

neck

颈椎

cervical vertebra

长颈鹿

giraffe

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-[k]eŋ (no palatalization before *-eŋ?)

gjieng

jǐng

neck

*[k]eŋʔ (no palatalization before *-eŋ?)

kjiengX

jǐng

neck


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.0388% of movies

2290th most common character in movies

2117th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+9838

Shuowen

“頸,頭莖也。从頁,巠聲。”


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