井
jǐng HSK6

well

井 jǐng
well noun
deep hole dug in the ground to obtain water, oil, or gas; also describes things shaped like a well shaft such as a skylight or mine shaft

他们看着像在挖井吗？

tā​men kàn zhe xiàng zài wā jǐng ma?

Do they look like they're digging a well?

neat adjective
(bound form) neat; orderly; well-organized
hometown
(bound form) one's hometown or a populated area; a village or marketplace
Jing constellation
the Jing (Well) constellation, one of the twenty-eight mansions of Chinese astronomy
Jing
the Chinese surname Jing
the Jing Hexagram
the 48th hexagram of the "I Ching", representing the Well
well-field system
(historical) a system of land ownership in ancient China (the well-field system), where nine squares of land were arranged in a 3-by-3 grid resembling this character's shape

Cross-References

Classifier

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,431st most common 78.3 per million
Movie subtitles
1,881st most common 23.8 per million appears in 7% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
14.3 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
40.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+4E95

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)