淨
jìng HSK6

clean

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simplified variants

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 爭 represents the sound.

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component

氵 is a component form of 水.

爭
爭 Sound component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Qin 221-206 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Jin 266-420 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdzjengHN-tseŋ-s clean (adj.)
dzjengHm-tseŋ-s cleanse (v.t.)

說文解字

《說文》：“淨，魯北城門池也。从水，爭聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)