黔
(literary) black; to blacken
16 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,631 U+9ED4
How 黔 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
黑 (semantic, “black”) + 今 (phonetic, jīn)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 今
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 今 (jīn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 今 sound component | jīn | modern, current; today, now |
| 含 | hán | to hold in the mouth; to contain; to cherish |
| 贪 | tān | greedy, covetous; corrupt |
| 吟 | yín | to sing, to hum; to recite; a type of poetry |
| 岑 | cén | steep, precipitous; peak |
| 矜 | jīn | to pity, to sympathize, to feel sorry for |
| 衾 | qīn | quilt, coverlet |
| 妗 | jìn | mother's brother's wife |
| 侌 | yīn | old variant of 陰|阴[yin1] |
| 芩 | qín | salt-marsh plant |
| 衿 | jīn | collar, lapel |
| 钤 | qián | lock, latch; to stamp, to seal |
Words containing 黔
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 黔西南布依族苗族自治州 | Qián xī nán Bù yī zú Miáo zú Zì zhì zhōu | Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in Guizhou Province 貴州省|贵州省[Gui4 zhou1 She… |
| 黔南布依族苗族自治州 | Qián nán Bù yī zú Miáo zú Zì zhì zhōu | Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in Guizhou Province 貴州省|贵州省[Gui4 zhou1 Sheng… |
| 黔西南州 | Qián xī nán Zhōu | see 黔西南布依族苗族自治州[Qian2 xi1 nan2 Bu4 yi1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1] |
| 黔东南州 | Qián dōng nán Zhōu | see 黔東南苗族侗族自治州|黔东南苗族侗族自治州[Qian2 dong1 nan2 Miao2 zu2 Dong4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1] |
| 黔东南苗族侗族自治州 | Qián dōng nán Miáo zú Dòng zú Zì zhì zhōu | Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, in Guizhou Province 貴州省|贵州省[Gui4 zhou1 Sh… |
| 黔西市 | Qián xī Shì | Qianxi, a county-level city in Bijie City 畢節市|毕节市[Bi4 jie2 Shi4], Guizhou |
| 黔西南 | Qián xī nán | see 黔西南布依族苗族自治州[Qian2 xi1 nan2 Bu4 yi1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1] |
| 黔江区 | Qián jiāng Qū | Qianjiang, a district of Chongqing 重慶|重庆[Chong2 qing4] |
| 黔东南 | Qián dōng nán | see 黔東南苗族侗族自治州|黔东南苗族侗族自治州[Qian2 dong1 nan2 Miao2 zu2 Dong4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1] |
| 黔南州 | Qián nán Zhōu | see 黔南布依族苗族自治州[Qian2 nan2 Bu4 yi1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1] |
| 黔西 | Qián xī | see 黔西市[Qian2 xi1 Shi4] |
| 黔南 | Qián nán | see 黔南布依族苗族自治州[Qian2 nan2 Bu4 yi1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1] |
| 黔江 | Qián jiāng | see 黔江區|黔江区[Qian2 jiang1 Qu1] |
| 黔首 | qián shǒu | (archaic) the common people |
| 黔驴技穷 | Qián lǘ jì qióng | to exhaust one's limited abilities (idiom) |
| 湘黔 | Xiāng Qián | Hunan-Guizhou |