jīng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 used in 鼩鼱: shrew (a tiny mouse-like mammal)

Examples

Qújīng shì zuì xiǎo de bǔrǔ dòngwù zhīyī.
The shrew is one of the smallest mammals.
鼩鼱昆虫
Qújīng zuǐ jiān, chī kūnchóng.
A shrew has a pointed snout and eats insects.

Tips

usage
is bound; it appears only in 鼩鼱, the shrew. Despite the rat radical, the shrew is not a rodent — the radical just marks it as a small rat-like creature.

Components

radical
shǔ
rat; mouse
Left is the rat radical , a whiskered rodent with clawed feet and a long tail. It marks the character as a small rat-like animal — here the shrew.
phonetic
qīng
blue-green (phonetic)
Right is , here only for sound, giving the jīng reading. The same phonetic appears in (clear sky) and (refined).

Stroke Order

jīng