経

See also 經, and 经

Translingual

shinjitai	経
simplified	经
traditional	經

Etymology

Simplified from 經 (巠 → 圣) in Japanese shinjitai. Current form 糸 + 圣, but not etymologically related to 圣.

Han character

経 (radical 120 糸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女火水土 (VFEG))

1. classic works
2. pass through

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 921, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27392
• Dae Jaweon: page 1354, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 5, page 3388, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7D4C

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Japanese

Kanji

経 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: けい (kei), きょう (kyō)
• Kun: へ.る (heru), たていと (tateito), つね (tsune), た.つ (tatsu)

Verb

See 経る

Compounds

経絡系 (けいらくけい, keirakukei): the meridian system 経緯 経営 経過 経験 (けいけん, keiken, “experience”) 経験値 (けいけんち, keikenchi, “experience point”) 経口 経済 経渉 経常

経度 経費 経由 経絡 経理 経略 経歴 経路 経典

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Korean

Hanja

経 (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

経 (pinyin jīng (jing1), Wade-Giles ching¹)