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  *靜* | 靜* | *靜
still / calm / quiet / not moving
HSK 3
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  *經* | 經* | *經
classics / sacred book / scripture / to pass through / to undergo / to bear / to endure / warp (textile) / longitude / menstruation / channel (TCM) / abbr. for economics 經濟|经济
HSK 7-9
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  *精* | 精* | *精
essence / extract / vitality / energy / semen / sperm / mythical goblin spirit / highly perfected / elite / the pick of sth / proficient (refined ability) / extremely (fine) / selected rice (archaic)
HSK 6
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  *經* | 經* | *經
surname Jing
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  *景* | 景* | *景
(bound form) scenery / circumstance / situation / scene (of a play) / (literary) sunlight
HSK 6
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  *井* | 井* | *井
a well / CL: / neat / orderly
HSK 6
Jing-Guang (Beijing-Guangzhou) Railway
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  *竟* | 竟* | *竟
unexpectedly / actually / to go so far as to / indeed
HSK 7-9
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  *京* | 京* | *京
surname Jing / Jing ethnic minority / abbr. for Beijing 北京
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  *京* | 京* | *京
capital city of a country / big / algebraic term for a large number (old) / artificial mound (old)
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  *莖* | 莖* | *莖
stalk / stem / CL: 條|条
HSK 7-9
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  *敬* | 敬* | *敬
(bound form) respectful; to respect / to offer politely
HSK 7-9
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  *景* | 景* | *景
surname Jing
Gin or Jing, ethnic minority of China, descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living mainly in Guangxi / Kinh, the ethnic majority in Vietnam
Jing-Jin-Ji (Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Province)
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  *驚* | 驚* | *驚
to startle / to be frightened / to be scared / alarm
HSK 7-9
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  *鯨* | 鯨* | *鯨
whale
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  *境* | 境* | *境
border / place / condition / boundary / circumstances / territory
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  *儆* | 儆* | *儆
to warn / to admonish
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  *淨* | 淨* | *淨
clean / completely / only / net (income, exports etc) / (Chinese opera) painted face male role
HSK 6
Prince Dan of Yan (-226 BC), commissioned the attempted assassination of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇) by Jing Ke 荊軻|荆轲 in 227 BC
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  *靚* | 靚* | *靚
to make up (one's face) / to dress / (of one's dress) beautiful
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  *倞* | 倞* | *倞
strong / powerful
lit. the assassin's dagger, concealed in a map scroll, is suddenly revealed when the map is unrolled (referring to the attempted assassination of Ying Zheng 嬴政 by Jing Ke 荊軻|荆轲 in 227 BC) (idiom) / fig. malicious intent suddenly becomes apparent
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  *井* | 井* | *井
Jing, one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy / surname Jing
the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (I Ching or Yi Jing) 易經|易经
Jing'an district, central Shanghai
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  *粳* | 粳* | *粳
round-grained nonglutinous rice (Japonica rice) / Taiwan pr. [geng1]
as rivers Jing and Wei separate clearly (idiom) / to be entirely different
Jing Nahiyisi or Jinghe county in Börtala Mongol autonomous prefecture 博爾塔拉蒙古自治州|博尔塔拉蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
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  *婧* | 婧* | *婧
(literary) (of a woman) slender; delicate / (literary) (of a woman) talented
Jing'an, a county in Yichun City 宜春市, Jiangxi
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  *兢* | 兢* | *兢
to be fearful / apprehensive
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  *璟* | 璟* | *璟
luster of gem
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  *睛* | 睛* | *睛
eye; eyeball
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  *勁* | 勁* | *勁
stalwart / sturdy / strong / powerful
Huangting Jing, one of the primary scriptures of Daoism
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  *阱* | 阱* | *阱
pitfall / trap
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  *脛* | 脛* | *脛
lower part of leg
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  *憬* | 憬* | *憬
awaken
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  *旌* | 旌* | *旌
banner / make manifest
Li Jing (570-649 AD), Tang Dynasty general and purported author of "Duke Li of Wei Answering Emperor Taizong of Tang" 唐太宗李衛公問對|唐太宗李卫公问对, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书
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  *俓* | 俓* | *俓
(literary) to pass through / straight / path
fine writing paper, originally from Jing county 涇縣|泾县, Xuancheng 宣城, Anhui
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  *荊* | 荊* | *荊
chaste tree or berry (Vitex agnus-castus) / alternative name for the Zhou Dynasty state of Chu 楚國|楚国
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  *弳* | 弳* | *弳
radian (math.) / now written 弧度
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  *暻* | 暻* | *暻
bright
Prince Dan of Yan (-226 BC), commissioned the attempted assassination of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇) by Jing Ke 荊軻|荆轲 in 227 BC
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  *鏡* | 鏡* | *鏡
mirror / lens
Lingshu Jing (Divine Pivot, or Spiritual Pivot), ancient Chinese medical text (c. 1st century BC)
jing'erhu, a two-stringed fiddle intermediate in size and pitch between the jinghu 京胡 and erhu 二胡, used to accompany Chinese opera / also called 京胡
Jing Nahiyisi or Jinghe county in Börtala Mongol autonomous prefecture 博爾塔拉蒙古自治州|博尔塔拉蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
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  *麖* | 麖* | *麖
red deer
(Chinese opera) tongchui hualian, a military character holding a bronze mace, classified as a jing 淨|净 role
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  *徑* | 徑* | *徑
footpath / track / diameter / straight / directly
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  *競* | 競* | *競
to compete / to contend / to struggle
Li Wei Gong / Duke Li of Wei, official title of Li Jing 李靖
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  *痙* | 痙* | *痙
spasm
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  *鼱* | 鼱* | *鼱
used in 鼩鼱
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  *剄* | 剄* | *剄
cut the throat
Zhou Bi Suan Jing, or Chou Pei Suan Ching, one of the oldest Chinese texts on astronomy and mathematics
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  *晶* | 晶* | *晶
crystal
Yuan Jing (1911-1999), writer, dramatist and film critic
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  *靖* | 靖* | *靖
surname Jing
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  *靖* | 靖* | *靖
(bound form) peaceful / (bound form) to pacify; to suppress
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  *䲔* | 䲔* | *䲔
old variant of 鯨|鲸
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  *菁* | 菁* | *菁
leek flower / lush / luxuriant
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  *坓* | 坓* | *坓
variant of
Jing Ke (-227 BC), celebrated in verse and fiction as would-be assassin of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇)
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  *警* | 警* | *警
to alert / to warn / police
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  *凈* | 凈* | *凈
variant of 淨|净
HSK 6
Jing County or Jingxian, a county in Hengshui City 衡水市, Hebei
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  *涇* | 涇* | *涇
Jing River
Canton-Hankou Railway, linking Guangzhou and Wuchang, incorporated since 1957 into the Jing-Guang Railway 京廣鐵路|京广铁路
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  *頸* | 頸* | *頸
neck
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  *肼* | 肼* | *肼
hydrazine
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  *瀞* | 瀞* | *瀞
(archaic) clean
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  *璥* | 璥* | *璥
(gem)
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  *麠* | 麠* | *麠
red deer / sambar deer
"Duke Li of Wei Answering Emperor Taizong of Tang", military treatise attributed to Li Jing 李靖 and one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书
Jing County or Jingxian, a county in Xuancheng City 宣城市, Anhui
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  *獍* | 獍* | *獍
a mythical animal that eats its mother
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  *腈* | 腈* | *腈
acrylic
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  *稉* | 稉* | *稉
variant of
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  *婙* | 婙* | *婙
old variant of
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  *丼* | 丼* | *丼
old variant of
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  *巠* | 巠* | *巠
underground watercourse / archaic variant of 經|经
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  *穽* | 穽* | *穽
variant of
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  *経* | 経* | *経
Japanese variant of 經|经
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  *踁* | 踁* | *踁
variant of 脛|胫
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  *逕* | 逕* | *逕
variant of 徑|径 / used in the names of people and places
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  *汫* | 汫* | *汫
old variant of / used in 汫濙|汫𣸨
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  *秔* | 秔* | *秔
variant of
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  *頚* | 頚* | *頚
old variant of 頸|颈
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  *坕* | 坕* | *坕
old variant of 經|经
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  *浄* | 浄* | *浄
Japanese variant of 淨|净


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