堇 — Chinese character

堇

jǐn

yellow loam; clay; season; few

Pinyin: jǐn
Radical: 32 ⼟ (Earth)
Strokes: 11
Components: 黄土
Formation: ideographic — Yellow 黄 earth 土

Common words with 堇

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
三色堇	sān sè jǐn	pansy
堇菜	jǐn cài	violet (botany)
堇色	jǐn sè	violet (color)

English words written with 堇

pansy

堇 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1

Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.