Character Details
| now;today; current; this | Ascii: — | w96 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 今 | jīn | djee:in | 1 | 人 (person) + 丶 (dot) → now; today | 今 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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My MEETING is at seven but that's NOW! | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Are you free tonight | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 9 - 亠 | tóu | head | lid | top cover stroke | 京 亡 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 人 (person) + 丶 (dot) → now; today | 人 (semantic) | 一 (phonetic) | phonetic from 一 | ||||||||