警 — Chinese character
警
jǐng
to guard, to watch; alarm, alert
- Pinyin
- jǐng
- Radical
- 149 ⾔ (Speech)
- Strokes
- 19
- Components
- 敬 言
- Formation
- pictophonetic — speech; meaning component 言; sound component 敬
- Japanese
- 警 as a kanji
Common words with 警
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 警察 | jǐng chá | police; police officer |
| 警方 | jǐng fāng | police |
| 警告 | jǐng gào | to warn; to admonish |
| 报警 (報警) | bào jǐng | to sound an alarm; to report sth to the police |
| 预警 (預警) | yù jǐng | warning; early warning |
| 警报 (警報) | jǐng bào | (fire) alarm; alert signal |
| 警官 | jǐng guān | constable; police officer |
| 警察局 | jǐng chá jú | police station; police department |
| 警员 (警員) | jǐng yuán | police officer; policeman (general term for any police officer); police constable (lowest rank in mainland China and Hong Kong) |
| 军警 (軍警) | jūn jǐng | the military and the police; military alert (announcing the approach of the enemy) |
| 警卫 (警衛) | jǐng wèi | to stand guard over; (security) guard |
| 警局 | jǐng jú | police department; police station |
English words written with 警
警 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Art of War 1 · Mencius 1
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.