in English

qióng
jasper / fine jade / beautiful / exquisite (e.g. wine, food) / abbr. for Hainan province

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 瓊, the traditional character: 琼 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 琼斯先生教我们英语会话。

    Mr Jones teaches us English conversation.

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