井 () is a Chinese word for ''
well
A well is an excavation or structure created on the earth by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water. The oldest and most common kind of well is a water well, to access groundwater in underground aquifers. The ...
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Jing (surname)
Jing is an East Asian surname and given name of Chinese origin. It is also the pinyin romanization of a number of less-common names including Jīng (), Jīng (), Jìng ( t , s ), Jǐng (), and Jǐng (), etc.
Surname 景 (Jǐng)
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Well (Chinese constellation)
The Well mansion (井宿, pinyin: Jǐng Xiù ; Japanese: chichiri-boshi) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is part of the southern mansions associated with the Vermilion Bird (Chinese constellation), Vermilion B ...
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I Ching hexagram 48
* One of the 20 kanji added to the
kyoiku kanji in 2020 since it is in the name of
See also:
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well-field system
The well-field system () was a Chinese land redistribution method existing between the eleventh or tenth century BCE (Western Zhou dynasty) to around the Warring States period. Though Mencius describes examples from the Xia and Shang dynasties, ...
() a Chinese system of land distribution, so named due to its geometric resemblance to the character 井
Kyōiku kanji
Fukui Prefecture
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