颈 (jǐng): neck
颈 (jǐng) is a Chinese character meaning “neck.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 页 (semantic). It ranks #2080 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 颈 head. Its radical form 页 (page) appears in many related characters such as 页 (xié, head), 顺 (shùn, to obey), 须 (xū, must).
Definitions
- neck
Etymology & Origin
pictophonetichead
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 颈
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 长颈鹿 | cháng jǐng lù | giraffe |
| 瓶颈 | píng jǐng | neck of a bottle |
| 头颈 | tóu jǐng | (dialect) neck |
| 脖颈 | bó gěng | back of the neck |
| 颈项 | jǐng xiàng | neck |
| 子宫颈管 | zǐ gōng jǐng guǎn | (anatomy) cervical canal |
| 长颈龙 | cháng jǐng lóng | tanystropheus, long-necked reptile from Triassic |
| 颈子 | jǐng zi | neck |
| 后颈 | hòu jǐng | nape |
| 子宫颈 | zǐ gōng jǐng | cervix |
| 颈部 | jǐng bù | neck |
| 手颈 | shǒu jǐng | (dialect) wrist |
| 白颈长尾雉 | bái jǐng cháng wěi zhì | (bird species of China) Elliot's pheasant (Syrmaticus ellioti) |
| 引颈就戮 | yǐn jǐng jiù lù | to extend one's neck in preparation for execution (idiom) |
| 子宫颈抹片 | zǐ gōng jǐng mǒ piàn | cervical smear (Tw) |
颈 appears in 68 compound words: 13 as the first character, 19 as the last, and 68 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 颈 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (4)
Example Sentences
颈字在不同的语境中有不同的用法。
gěng zì zài bù tóng de yǔ jìng zhōng yǒu bù tóng de yòng fǎ .
The character "neck" has different usages in different contexts.
少女第一次做ae一般多少秒正常?肩颈酸痛是姿势不良的早期信号吗
shǎo nǚ dì yī cì zuò a e yī bān duō shǎo miǎo zhèng cháng ? jiān jǐng suān tòng shì zī shì bù liáng de zǎo qī xìn hào ma
How many seconds is normal for a girl to do AE for the first time? Is shoulder and neck pain an early sign of poor posture?
...026 GTC 下月开幕,系统突破算力瓶颈
. . . 0 2 6 G T C xià yuè kāi mù , xì tǒng tū pò suàn lì píng jǐng
... 026 GTC will open next month, and the system will break through the bottleneck of computing power
艾司摩尔突破EUV光源瓶颈 功率提升至千瓦 拚2030产能增50%
ài sī mó ěr tū pò E U V guāng yuán píng jǐng gōng lǜ tí shēng zhì qiān wǎ 拚 2 0 3 0 chǎn néng zēng 5 0
Esmore breaks through the bottleneck of EUV light sources, increases power to kilowatts, and strives to increase production capacity by 50% by 2030
再遇瓶颈 NASA载人登月任务恐延至4月
zài yù píng jǐng N A S A zài rén dēng yuè rèn wù kǒng yán zhì 4 yuè
Another bottleneck NASA's manned lunar mission may be postponed to April
...绪失控随机攻击!七旬翁晨运突遭男子压制割颈
. . . xù shī kòng suí jī gōng jī ! qī xún wēng chén yùn tū zāo nán zǐ yā zhì gē jǐng
... Random attack out of control! The septuagenarian was suddenly suppressed and cut by a man in the morning
蚂蚁和长颈鹿是远亲。
Mǎyǐ hé chángjǐnglù shì yuǎnqīn.
Ants and giraffes are distant cousins.
新生的长颈鹿摇晃着腿跌跌撞撞地走。
Xīnshēng de chángjǐnglù yáohuàng zhe tuǐ diēdiezhuàngzhuàng de zǒu.
The newborn giraffe stumbled around on rickety legs.
长颈鹿一脚可以踢死狮子。
Chángjǐnglù yī jiǎo kěyǐ tī sǐ shīzi.
A giraffe's kick could kill a lion.
这个国家只剩下少量的长颈鹿。
Zhège guójiā zhǐ shèngxià shǎoliàng de chángjǐnglù.
Only small populations of giraffes remain in this country.
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