精
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essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic)
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- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 米 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 精
- Common rank
- #260
- Unicode
- U+7CBE
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Formation & memory
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Words with 精
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小人精 | exceptionally bright kid; child prodigy | |
| 精神学家 | psychologist | |
| 精神日本人 | (neologism) "spiritually Japanese person"; person who identifies strongly with Japan | |
| 精神病学 | psychiatry | |
| 精利主义 | egoism masked by a veneer of urbanity (neologism c. 2012) (abbr. for 精緻的利己主義|精致的利己主义[jing1… | |
| 精神学 | psychology | |
| 有精神病 | insane | |
| 精神性 | spirituality; mental; nervous; psychogenic | |
| 龙马精神 | old but still full of vitality (idiom) | |
| 精河县 | Jinghe, a county in Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 博爾塔拉蒙古自治州|博尔塔拉蒙古自治州[Bo2 er3 ta3 l… | |
| 精神文明 | spiritual culture | |
| 精子 | sperm cell; spermatozoon | |
| 精气神 | the three energies of Chinese medicine: 精[jing1], 氣|气[qi4], and 神[shen2] | |
| 人精 | sophisticate; man with extensive experience; child prodigy; Wunderkind (i.e. brilliant chi… | |
| 山精 | mountain spirit; monster or creature said to inhabit mountains | |
| 精心 | with utmost care; fine; meticulous; detailed | |
| 地精 | gnome; goblin | |
| 物质文明和精神文明 | material and spiritual culture; matter and mind; material progress, ideology and culture (… | |
| 精打光 | with absolutely nothing; completely broke | |
| 精白 | pure white; spotlessly white |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 青 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 青 sound part | nature's color; blue, green, black; young | |
| 情 | emotion, feeling, sentiment | |
| 清 | clean, pure; clear, distinct; peaceful | |
| 请 | to ask, to request; to invite; please | |
| 氰 | cyanogen; ethane dinitrile | |
| 睛 | eyeball; pupil | |
| 猜 | to guess, to conjecture, to suppose; to feel | |
| 晴 | clear weather, fine weather | |
| 蜻 | dragonfly | |
| 靓 | ornament; pretty; to apply make-up | |
| 菁 | turnip; a flower of the leek family | |
| 腈 | acrylic | |
| 箐 | to draw a bamboo bow | |
| 鲭 | mackerel | |
| 鼱 | shrew | |
| 圊 | restroom |