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荆 Jing — a rarer surname
65.5 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Jing |
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| Strokes | 9 |
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| Commonness | outside the top 100 |
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| Type | single-character |
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Where the surname comes from
A surname meaning 'thorns', forever linked with the assassin Jing Ke.
What the character means
Perseverance and unyielding spirit
Why it scores this way
Easy to say88
Mostly easy. The only friction is j, which English speakers usually turn into something close.
Recognised in China35
Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.
Easy to write75
9 strokes — a little practice and it flows.
People who carried this name
- Jing Ke — Warring States assassin (d.227 BC), hero of the famous 'attempt on Qin Shi Huang'.
- Jing Hao — Five Dynasties landscape painter, founder of the northern school. Known for monumental mountain paintings and treatise on brushwork.
- Jing Si — Northern Song dynasty general, renowned for military exploits in frontier battles, a descendant of Jing Hao's lineage? (No, unrelated).
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