| 井 | 239B05 20.20 | 部居  | 畫數 4 | ㄐㄧㄥˇ [jing3] | ||
| N. | (1) A well: 井水 well water; 井闌 [jing3lan2]↓; 井口 the mouth of a well; 井水不犯河水 none may encroach upon the precincts of another; 投井，跳井 drown oneself in a well; 枯井 a dried-up well; 鹽井，油井 salt wells, oil wells; 鑿井 well-digging. (2) An ancient system of farming and land distribution: 井田 [jing3tian2]↓. (3) A surname. | |||||
| Words | 1. 井拔涼 [jing3ba0liang2], n., cool fresh water from a well. 2. 井底蛙 [jing2di3wa1], n., a person with a limited outlook (“a frog living at the bottom of a well”). 3. 井井 [jing2jing3], adj., neat, tidy, well-arranged: 井井有條 in an orderly manner. 4. 井臼 [jing3jiu4], n, domestic work, household management (“drawing water and pounding rice”). 5. 井闌 [jing3lan2], n., (1) well curb; (2) (AC) scaffolding for attacking city walls. 6. 井然 [jing3ran2], adj., well arranged, in good order, tidy. 7. 井臺兒 [jing3tarer0], n., a raised platform by the side of a well. 8. 井田 [jing3tian2], n., an ancient system of cutting farm land into nine squares in the pattern of character 井, the center square being communal farm, the surrounding eight private. 9. 井蛙 [jing3wa1], n., see [jing3di3wa1]↑. 10. 井窩子 [jing3wo1zi0], n., formerly, a place near a well where sellers of well water lived in Peiping. 11. 井鹽 [jing3yan2], n., salt from salt wells. | |||||