qīn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a large quilt; bedding (literary)

Examples

Hándōng zhī yè, hòu qīn zuì nuǎn.
On the cold winter night a thick quilt is the warmest thing.

Tips

history
is not used by itself in modern Chinese; it appears in classical poetry and the literary pairing ('quilt and pillow', i.e. bedding). It is a large outer quilt, as opposed to the smaller sleeping wrap. The clothing radical gives the meaning; supplies the sound.
register
Literary. Everyday Chinese says 被子 or 棉被; keeps a poetic, classical flavour.

Components

radical
clothing; cloth covering
(clothing) is the indexing radical, sitting below; it tells the reader is a large cloth covering, a quilt for the bed.
phonetic
jīn
phonetic element
sits on top and supplies the sound for , with the reading drifting; it is the same phonetic seen in and .

Stroke Order

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