bright window

HSK 10

jiǒng

ケイ、キョウ、ソウ

あきらか

Originally a pictograph of a window. Nowadays sometimes used as a sad-face emoticon.

Components

Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

囧

Regular

Modern

Chinese

囧 [jiǒng]

(archaic) light, bright (variant of 冏[jiǒng]); (since c. 2005) (slang) emoticon signifying embarrassment, shock, helplessness etc

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