jǐn

time of famine or crop failure

A time of little  food  also provides the pronunciation

Components
饣 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

堇 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

jǐn

  

clay

Evolution

馑 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
馑 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
馑 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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jǐn

time of famine or crop failure

Most common words with 馑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

time of famine or crop failure

饥馑荐臻

famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4473rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Traditional

Unicode

U+9991


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