jìn

red silk

Components

Meaning component
silk

silk

Sound component
jìn advance

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangʔsins

說文解字

帛赤色也。《春秋傳》“縉雲氏”,《禮》有“縉緣”。从糸晉聲。

Sources

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

jìn red silk Simplified

Components

Meaning component
silk

silk

Sound component
jìn advance

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode