精
essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic)
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Dict coverage rank #260 U+7CBE
How 精 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
米 (semantic, “grain”) + 青 (phonetic, qīng)
How to remember it
refined · Heisig RSH #1209
米 rice + telescope
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 青
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 青 (qīng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 青 sound component | qīng | nature's color; blue, green, black; young |
| 情 | qíng | emotion, feeling, sentiment |
| 清 | qīng | clean, pure; clear, distinct; peaceful |
| 请 | qǐng | to ask, to request; to invite; please |
| 氰 | qíng | cyanogen; ethane dinitrile |
| 睛 | jīng | eyeball; pupil |
| 猜 | cāi | to guess, to conjecture, to suppose; to feel |
| 晴 | qíng | clear weather, fine weather |
| 蜻 | qīng | dragonfly |
| 靓 | liàng | ornament; pretty; to apply make-up |
| 菁 | jīng | turnip; a flower of the leek family |
| 腈 | jīng | acrylic |
| 箐 | qìng | to draw a bamboo bow |
| 鲭 | qīng | mackerel |
| 鼱 | jīng | shrew |
| 圊 | qīng | restroom |
Words containing 精
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小人精 | xiǎo rén jīng | exceptionally bright kid; child prodigy |
| 精神学家 | jīng shén xué jiā | psychologist |
| 精神日本人 | jīng shén Rì běn rén | (neologism) "spiritually Japanese person"; person who identifies strongly with Japan |
| 精神病学 | jīng shén bìng xué | psychiatry |
| 精利主义 | jīng lì zhǔ yì | egoism masked by a veneer of urbanity (neologism c. 2012) (abbr. for 精緻的利己主義|精致的利己主义[jing1… |
| 精神学 | jīng shén xué | psychology |
| 有精神病 | yǒu jīng shén bìng | insane |
| 精神性 | jīng shén xìng | spirituality; mental; nervous; psychogenic |
| 龙马精神 | lóng mǎ jīng shén | old but still full of vitality (idiom) |
| 精河县 | Jīng hé Xiàn | Jinghe, a county in Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 博爾塔拉蒙古自治州|博尔塔拉蒙古自治州[Bo2 er3 ta3 l… |
| 精神文明 | jīng shén wén míng | spiritual culture |
| 精子 | jīng zǐ | sperm cell; spermatozoon |
| 精气神 | jīng qì shén | the three energies of Chinese medicine: 精[jing1], 氣|气[qi4], and 神[shen2] |
| 人精 | rén jīng | sophisticate; man with extensive experience; child prodigy; Wunderkind (i.e. brilliant chi… |
| 山精 | shān jīng | mountain spirit; monster or creature said to inhabit mountains |
| 精心 | jīng xīn | with utmost care; fine; meticulous; detailed |
| 地精 | dì jīng | gnome; goblin |
| 物质文明和精神文明 | wù zhì wén míng hé jīng shén wén míng | material and spiritual culture; matter and mind; material progress, ideology and culture (… |
| 精打光 | jīng dǎ guāng | with absolutely nothing; completely broke |
| 精白 | jīng bái | pure white; spotlessly white |