jīng

whale

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
鱼 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

京 sound component

  Sound component

jīng

  

capital city

Evolution

鲸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鲸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鲸 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
鲸 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
鲸 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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jīng

whale

Most common words with 鲸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

whale

鲸鱼

whale

白鲸

beluga

蓝鲸

blue whale

抹香鲸

cachalot

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.8192% of movies

2555th most common character in movies

2618th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Traditional

Unicode

U+9CB8


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