槿

jǐn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 rose of Sharon; hibiscus (used mainly in 木槿)

Examples

木槿朝开暮落一天
Mùjǐn de huā zhāo kāi mù luò, zhǐ kāi yìtiān.
Each rose-of-Sharon flower blooms for only a single day.

Tips

history
槿 rarely stands alone; it occurs mainly in 木槿 (rose of Sharon), whose day-long blooms gave the classical metaphor 槿花一日 for fleeting glory. It joins the tree radical with the phonetic .
register
Literary and bound; appears in the plant name and classical allusions to transience, not as a free word in speech.

Components

radical
tree; wood
The tree radical on the left marks this as a flowering shrub — the hibiscus.
phonetic
jǐn
yellow clay (phonetic element)
Supplies the sound, matching the jǐn reading. The same phonetic appears in and ; it carries no meaning here.

Stroke Order

槿 jǐn