JING-4

('jing' in the fourth tone)

There are 51 standard Chinese characters with a 'jing' pronunciation. Major sound-indicating components of more complicated characters include  the right part of the character 经, without the radical 纟. This is a rare character that cannot be reproduced in many encodings. It occurs in some ten composite characters that are spoken 'jing'. Other sound-indicating components in 'jing' characters are: 青 (9 occurrences), 京 (5), 竟 (4)

The most frequently encountered 'jing' words are listed below. In case the 'jing' morpheme occurs almost always as part of a two-character word, this two-character word is listed.

经 = jing(1) = to manage, passage

北京 = bei(3)jing(1) = Beijing, capital of China

精 = jing(1) = essence, sperm

警察 = jing(3)cha(2) = police, policeman

干净 = gan(1)jing(4) = clean

净 = jing(4) = clean, to clean

However, the two-character version is commonly used.

干净 = gan(1)jing(4) = clean