IDENTITY
静jìngquiet; still
HSK 3Top 600
CORE MEANING
quiet; still
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.quietHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 青blue-green radical (qīng)
- strokes
- 14
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰青争
- gives the sound jìng (historical)
- struggle; quelling it
USAGE
Common words
安静ānjìngquiet
平静píngjìngcalm
冷静lěngjìngcalm-headed
Graded examples
请保持安静。Qǐng bǎochí ānjìng.HSK3
Please keep quiet.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
The blue-green (青) calm after the struggle (争) — quiet. (From 靜.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #600
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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