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Chinese

淨

jìng
clean; unspoilt
  • HSK 1
  • TOCFL 7
  • radical 水
  • 11 strokes
  • 㵾
  • 浄
  • 𪷍

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Origin

Etymology 1

Likely related to 清 (OC *sʰleŋ, “clean, pure”); see there for more.

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 淨 – see 埩 (“moat around the gate of the capital of ancient state of Lu”).

(This character is a variant form of 埩).

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lineage

  • partChinese氵 “water”
  • partChinese爭 “to dispute; to fight”

Meanings

character
  1. clean; unspoilt
  2. pure; with nothing else
  3. to clean; to cleanse
  4. finished; with nothing left
  5. net
  6. only; merely; nothing but

Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字

淨：魯北城門池也。从水爭聲。

Xu Shen, c. 100 CE — the first analytical dictionary of Chinese characters.

國語辭典 definitions

  1. 清潔。 例：乾淨、潔淨、窗明几淨
  2. 使清潔。 例：淨身、淨臉
  3. 純粹的、實質的。 例：淨利、淨賺
  4. 全部、只。 例：這裡頭淨是水。
  5. 一種戲劇腳色。大都扮演勇猛、剛強、正直、奸險等性格的人物，也因腳色的不同而有正淨、副淨、武淨、末淨等的區分。　△花臉

© Ministry of Education, Taiwan — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW, shown unaltered.

How 淨 was written 字形演變

  1. 淨 in Small seal script
    Small seal
    說文小篆
    Shuowen, c. 100 CE
  2. 淨 in Regular script
    Regular
    楷書
    since c. 200 CE

Historical forms collected by the legacy etymfun dataset; most characters have several attested variants.

Sources

  • Structural decomposition (chaizi) — See upstream
  • Historical glyph forms (zdic.net 字形演变) — Rights unverified
  • HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
  • 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
  • 說文解字 Shuowen Jiezi (Xu Shen, c. 100 CE) — Public domain
  • Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Wiktionary: 淨