颈 — Chinese character
颈
jǐng
neck, throat
- Pinyin
- jǐng
- Radical
- 181 ⾴ (Leaf)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 页
- Formation
- pictophonetic — head; meaning component 页
- Traditional
- 頸
Common words with 颈
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 瓶颈 (瓶頸) | píng jǐng | neck of a bottle; (fig.) bottleneck |
| 颈部 (頸部) | jǐng bù | neck |
| 长颈鹿 (長頸鹿) | cháng jǐng lù | giraffe; 只 (zhī) |
| 宫颈 (宮頸) | gōng jǐng | cervix; the neck of the uterus |
| 颈椎 (頸椎) | jǐng zhuī | cervical vertebra; the seven cervical vertebrae in the neck of humans and most mammals |
| 颈椎病 (頸椎病) | jǐng zhuī bìng | cervical spondylosis |
| 引颈 (引頸) | yǐn jǐng | to crane one's neck; (fig.) with one's neck outstretched in expectation |
| 子宫颈 (子宮頸) | zǐ gōng jǐng | cervix; the neck of the uterus |
| 脖颈 (脖頸) | bó gěng | back of the neck; nape |
| 头颈 (頭頸) | tóu jǐng | (dialect) neck |
| 颈动脉 (頸動脈) | jǐng dòng mài | carotid artery (medicine) |
| 颈项 (頸項) | jǐng xiàng | neck |
English words written with 颈
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.