qín / jǐn
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 diligent; earnest

Examples

HSK 7-9
Jiùshí shūxìn lǐ qín biǎoshì yīnqiè guàniàn.
In old letters it borrows the sense of earnest, attentive concern.
HSK 7-9
Qín niàn jiù shì yīnqiè de guānxīn.
Earnest concern means attentive, heartfelt care.

Tips

register
Read qín, is a literary variant of , used in old epistolary phrases like (to think of someone with earnest concern). Rare in modern Chinese.

Components

radical
广 guǎng
shelter; building
广 is the lean-to shelter radical, drawn as a roof over an open side. It marks this as a kind of building, here a small, humble hut.
phonetic
jǐn
yellow clay
supplies the sound jǐn, matching its own reading. It also drives the qín reading and appears in the same family as and .

Stroke Order

qín