(jīng) - to pass through; already; classic (in 已经, 经常, 经过) in Mandarin
jīngTraditional: 經
Translation
to pass through; already; classic (in 已经, 经常, 经过)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the silk radical 纟refers to the warp threads of a loom (the original sense), and 巠 (jīng) supplies the sound; from warp threads come the senses of passing through and of a classic text.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 纟(silk radical) + 巠 (jīng, phonetic)
Stroke order
经
Examples
。
I've already eaten.
。
He often goes to the library.
。
I used to work there.
。
I passed by that bookshop.
。
He has been through many things.
经 (jīng) carries the senses of passing through, having undergone, and classic text. In daily speech it lives in 已经 (already), 经常 (often), and 曾经 (formerly, used to).
Appears in 6 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 经.
Used in
Grammar articles
(4)Mandarin Advanced Grammar (C1-C2 / HSK 6+): Chengyu, Classical Remnants, and Register
The Mandarin 把 (bǎ) Construction: Fronting the Object to Say What You Did To It
Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System
Mandarin Resultative Complements: Fusing a Result onto the Verb (看见, 吃完, 找到)
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