今
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now; the present time; current; contemporary; this (day, year etc)
4 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,142 U+4ECA
How 今 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A mouth 亼 talking about things
How to remember it
now · Heisig RSH #1244
meeting — as a component also called: clock
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 今 as their sound component
These characters all use 今 (jīn) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 今 sound component | jīn | modern, current; today, now |
| 含 | hán | to hold in the mouth; to contain; to cherish |
| 贪 | tān | greedy, covetous; corrupt |
| 吟 | yín | to sing, to hum; to recite; a type of poetry |
| 黔 | qián | black; the Guizhou province |
| 岑 | cén | steep, precipitous; peak |
| 矜 | jīn | to pity, to sympathize, to feel sorry for |
| 衾 | qīn | quilt, coverlet |
| 妗 | jìn | mother's brother's wife |
| 侌 | yīn | old variant of 陰|阴[yin1] |
| 芩 | qín | salt-marsh plant |
| 衿 | jīn | collar, lapel |
| 钤 | qián | lock, latch; to stamp, to seal |
Words containing 今
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 今文经学 | jīn wén jīng xué | Former Han dynasty school of Confucian scholars |
| 古今中外 | gǔ jīn zhōng wài | at all times and in all places (idiom) |
| 今日头条 | Jīn rì Tóu tiáo | Toutiao, personalized content recommendation app |
| 大长今 | Dà cháng jīn | Dae Jang Geum, a 2003 Korean historical drama TV series |
| 古今小说 | Gǔ jīn Xiǎo shuō | Stories Old and New by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙[Feng2 Meng4 long2], collection of late Ming b… |
| 事到今日 | shì dào jīn rì | under the circumstances; the matter having come to that point |
| 今文经 | jīn wén jīng | Former Han dynasty school of Confucian scholars |
| 事到如今 | shì dào rú jīn | as matters stand; things having reached this stage |
| 今古文 | jīn gǔ wén | Former Han dynasty study or rewriting of classical texts such as the Confucian six classic… |
| 博古通今 | bó gǔ tōng jīn | conversant with things past and present; erudite and informed |
| 从今以后 | cóng jīn yǐ hòu | from now on; henceforward |
| 时至今日 | shí zhì jīn rì | (idiom) up to the present; even now; now (in contrast with the past); at this late hour |
| 今人 | jīn rén | modern people |
| 今生 | jīn shēng | this lifetime |
| 今儿 | jīn r | (coll.) today |
| 今天 | jīn tiān | today; the present time; now |
| 今儿个 | jīn r ge | (coll.) today |
| 现如今 | xiàn rú jīn | nowadays; now |
| 今日 | jīn rì | today |
| 今时今日 | jīn shí jīn rì | this day and age (dialect) |