经

ji̅ng = ji + (e)ng1

surname Jing

经 = 纟 + 又 + 工 : Joan of Arc is boiling with indignation when she sees a silk worm (or rather a book worm?) looking out of a hole in her sacred tome in front of the engine. To drive the worm out, Joan of Arc attached a boxing glove to a steel beam and gains momentum for her sucker punch.

ji̅ng = ji + (e)ng1

classics / sacred book / scripture / to pass through / to undergo / to bear / to endure / warp (textile) / longitude / menstruation / channel (TCM) / abbr. for economics 經濟|经济[jing1 ji4]

经 = 纟 + 又 + 工 : Joan of Arc is boiling with indignation when she sees a silk worm (or rather a book worm?) looking out of a hole in her sacred tome in front of the engine. To drive the worm out, Joan of Arc attached a boxing glove to a steel beam and gains momentum for her sucker punch.

经 character breakdown

经
- 又
  - ㇏
  - ㇇
- 工
  - 丨
  - 二
    - 一
- 纟

yòu = y + ou4

(once) again / also / both... and... / and yet / (used for emphasis) anyway

又 = ㇇ + ㇏ : And once again (又), Maud Younger (y) is preparing for battle. She's donning her boxing glove in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), puts on a beak (㇇) and plans go give her opponent the finger (㇏).

go̅ng = gu + (e)ng1

work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor

工 = 二 + 丨 : Mnemonic symbol: a steel beam, since 工 looks like the cross section of a steel beam.

Gitta Giraffe (gu) is working a shift in front of the engine ((e)ng1). Her job is to melt dinosaur bones (丨) so that they can be disposed off easily. To melt the bones, she is shorting a huge capacitor (二) with a steel beam (工) which consequently heats up to a bright glow. Using the glowing hot steel beam she can melt the dinosaur bone easily.

si̅ = s + Ø1

"silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅|红[hong2], 綠|绿[lü4], 累[lei4] etc / also pr. [mi4]

A silk worm.

Characters with 经 as component

经 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 经

decent / honorable / proper / serious / according to standards

to experience; to go through

to experience / to go through

east longitude

serious / earnest / real / true

peripheral nerve

transverse commissure

non-canonical text / dubious classic text / Apocrypha

Kama Sutra

classic book / sutra

variant of 正經八百|正经八百[zheng4 jing1 ba1 bai3]

to abandon farming and become a businessman (idiom)

see 正經八百|正经八百[zheng4 jing1 ba1 bai3]

Seven Military Classics of ancient China viz "Six Secret Strategic Teachings" 六韜|六韬[Liu4 tao1], "Methods of Sima" 司馬法|司马法[Si1 ma3 Fa3], "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], "Wuzi" 吳子|吴子[Wu2 zi3], "Wei Liaozi" 尉繚子|尉缭子[Wei4 Liao2 zi5], "Three Strategies of Huang Shigong" 黃石公三略|黄石公三略[Huang2 Shi2 gong1 San1 lüe4] and "Duke Li of Wei Answering Emperor Taizong of Tang" 唐太宗李衛公問對|唐太宗李卫公问对[Tang2 Tai4 zong1 Li3 Wei4 Gong1 Wen4 dui4]

"Collection of the Most Important Military Techniques", book published in 1044 during the Northern Song Dynasty

Kyrie Eleison (section of Catholic mass) / Miserere nobis / Lord have mercy upon us

channel tropism (TCM)

Dead Sea Scrolls

already

Book of Music, said to be one of the Six Classics lost after Qin's burning of the books in 212 BC, but may simply refer to Book of Songs 詩經|诗经

Sentences with 经

nǎ

lǐ

ji̅ng

de

qǐ

wǒ

de

yi̅

chuí

ya

How can you withstand a single hit from my hammer?