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菁

jīng

Character

What 菁 means

1. leek flower
2. lush
3. luxuriant

Words starting with 菁

• 菁英jīng yīngelite
• 菁华jīng huáthe cream; essence; the quintessence

Words containing 菁

• 蔓菁mán jingturnip
• 芜菁wú jīngturnip
• 去芜存菁qù wú cún jīnglit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers; to separate the wheat from the chaff…
• 芜菁甘蓝wú jīng gān lánrutabaga (vegetable)

Characters built on 青

These share the phonetic component 青 (qīng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 请qǐngto ask; to invite; please (do sth)
• 情qíng(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
• 清qīng(of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted
• 精jīngessence; extract; vitality
• 静jìngstill; calm; quiet
• 睛jīngeye; eyeball
• 晴qíngclear; fine (weather)
• 婧jìng(literary) (of a woman) slender; delicate; (literary) (of a woman) talented

Characters that look like 菁

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 普pǔgeneral; popular; everywhere
• 蒂dìstem (of fruit)
• 寄jìto entrust; to place in sb's care; (bound form) to depend on; to attach oneself to…
• 晋jìnto move forward; to promote; to advance
• 暑shǔheat; hot weather; summer heat
• 菅jiān(grass); Themeda forsbali

Sounds the same

Read jīng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 京capital city of a country; big; algebraic term for a large number (old)
• 经classics; sacred book; scripture
• 睛eye; eyeball
• 精essence; extract; vitality
• 惊to startle; to be frightened; to be scared
• 晶crystal
• 茎stalk; stem
• 兢to be fearful; apprehensive
• 荆chaste tree or its berry (Vitex agnus-castus); (literary) cane or switch made from a…
• 泾Jing River
• 鲸whale
• 旌banner; make manifest