jìngliàng

far

Someone  living in the capital  also provides the pronunciation

Components

Meaning component
rén person
SoundMeaning component
jīng capital city

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangɡraŋs

說文解字

彊也。从人京聲。

Sources

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