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jǐn

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jǐn Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
jǐn | jin3
English translation
a time of famine or crop failure

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About jǐn

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Number of strokes

19

Traditional form

jǐn

Contains the radical

shí

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

A time of little  jǐn food  shí jǐn also provides the pronunciation

Etymology of jǐn

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

飠堇

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Words with jǐn

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
jǐn time of famine or crop failure jǐn
饥馑荐臻 jī jǐn jiàn zhēn famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)饑饉薦臻

jǐn Decomposition & Compounds

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