鲸 (jīng): whale
鲸 (jīng) is a Chinese character meaning “whale.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 鱼 (semantic) and 京 (phonetic). It ranks #3138 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 鲸 fish. Its radical form 鱼 (fish) appears in many related characters such as 鱼 (yú, fish), 鲜 (xiān, fresh), 鲨 (shā, shark).
Definitions
- whale
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鲸鱼noun | jīng yú | whale |
| 白鲸noun | bái jīng | beluga whale |
| 蓝鲸noun | lán jīng | blue whale |
| 抹香鲸noun | mǒ xiāng jīng | sperm whale |
| 蚕食鲸吞phrase | cán shí jīng tūn | (lit.) to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom) |
| 杀人鲸noun | shā rén jīng | orca |
| 一角鲸noun | yī jiǎo jīng | narwhal (Monodon monoceros) |
| 座头鲸noun | zuò tóu jīng | humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) |
| 独角鲸noun | dú jiǎo jīng | narwhal (Monodon monoceros) |
| 鲸鱼座proper-noun | jīng yú zuò | Cetus (constellation) |
| 鲸目noun | jīng mù | Cetacea (whale family) |
| 捕鲸船 | bǔ jīng chuán | whaler |
| 鲸头鹳noun | jīng tóu guàn | shoebill stork (Balaeniceps rex) |
| 须鲸noun | xū jīng | baleen whale |
| 鲸落noun | jīng luò | whale fall |
鲸 appears in 23 compound words: 35 as the first character, 57 as the last, and 9 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 鲸 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
鲸字由16笔画组成，结构很巧妙。
jīng zì yóu bǐ huà zǔ chéng , jié gòu hěn qiǎo miào .
The character for "whale" consists of 16 strokes and has a very ingenious structure.
企排/台北鲸华“黄金决胜局”逆转高雄台电 完成不可思...
qǐ pái tái běi jīng huá huáng jīn jué shèng jú nì zhuǎn gāo xióng tái diàn wán chéng bù kě sī . . .
Corporate Volleyball: Taipei Whales Stages a Comeback in a "Golden Set" to Defeat Kaohsiung Taipower, Achieving an Unthinkable...
20尺幼鲸获救放海后死亡 尸骸搁浅丹容亚路海滩
2 0 chǐ yòu jīng huò jiù fàng hǎi hòu sǐ wáng shī 骸 gē qiǎn dān róng yà lù hǎi tān
A 20-foot-long calf was rescued and released back into the ocean but later died; its carcass washed ashore at Danrong Yalu Beach
发现古老鲸鱼歌声 助研究海洋生态
fā xiàn gǔ lǎo jīng yú gē shēng zhù yán jiū hǎi yáng shēng tài
Discovery of Ancient Whale Songs Aids Research on Marine Ecology
小虎鲸屏东搁浅4死 7只获救野放
xiǎo hǔ jīng bǐng dōng gē qiǎn sǐ zhī huò jiù yě fàng
Baby killer whales ran aground in Pingtung, 4 died, and 7 were rescued and released into the wild
...高端中场旺 人均注码3万破顶 马年新春“鲸鱼客”53名 单注最高80万
. . . gāo duān zhōng chǎng wàng rén jūn zhù mǎ wàn pò dǐng mǎ nián xīn chūn jīng yú kè míng dān zhù zuì gāo wàn
... High-end midfielders are prosperous, with an average bet of 30,000 per capita to break the top, and 53 "whale guests" in the New Year of the Horse have a single bet of up to 800,000 yuan
Character Family
鱼 Radical Family — Characters sharing the fish radical
Homophones — Characters pronounced jīng
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