jǐn

nuptial wine cup

Components

Meaning component
chéng, shèng, zhēng assist, deputy

water

Sound component
self

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangklɯnʔ

說文解字

謹身有所承也。从己、丞。讀若《詩》云“赤舄己己”。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica