(jìng) - quiet; still; calm (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
jìngTraditional: 静
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Translation
quiet; still; calm (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: 青 (qīng) supplies the sound and 争 (zhēng) the remaining element, together meaning still or quiet.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 青 (qīng, phonetic) + 争 (zhēng)
Stroke order
静
Examples
。
Please be quiet for a moment.
，。
Calm down, don't get angry.
。
It's very quiet in the library.
。
Please stay calm.
静 (jìng) is a bound morpheme meaning quiet or calm, found in 安静 (ān jìng) "quiet" and 冷静 (lěng jìng) "calm".
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 静.
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