jìng
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 (of a woman) slender and graceful
  2. 2 (of a woman) talented and virtuous

Examples

Hěnduō nǚhái de míngzi lǐ yǒu jìng zì.
Many girls have the character jing in their given name.
Zhège míngzi zànměi nǚzǐ miáotiao yǒucái.
The name praises a woman as slender and gifted.

Tips

culture
Chiefly a given-name character for girls, carrying the literary sense of a woman who is both slender and graceful and clever and virtuous — a flattering choice for a daughter's name.

Components

radical
woman
Left-side woman radical . The character describes a graceful, gifted woman, so the woman radical carries the meaning.
phonetic
qīng
green; (here) sound
Right side supplies the sound (jìng); it is the phonetic in a large family including and .

Stroke Order

jìng