菁 — Chinese character
菁
jīng
turnip; a flower of the leek family
- Pinyin
- jīng
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 艹 青
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 青
- Japanese
- 菁 as a kanji
Common words with 菁
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 菁英 | jīng yīng | elite |
| 芜菁 (蕪菁) | wú jīng | turnip |
| 菁华 (菁華) | jīng huá | the cream; essence |
| 蔓菁 | mán jing | turnip |
| 芜菁甘蓝 (蕪菁甘藍) | wú jīng gān lán | rutabaga (vegetable) |
| 去芜存菁 (去蕪存菁) | qù wú cún jīng | lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers; to separate the wheat from the chaff (idiom) |
English words written with 菁
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.