Pictographic: A capital building on a hillRadical:

meaning for jīng:

  • - abbr. for Beijing
  • - surname Jing
  • - Jing ethnic minority
  • - capital city of a country
  • - big
  • - algebraic term for a large number (old)
  • - artificial mound (old)Beijing, capital of People's Republic of China
  • - Peking
  • - PRC governmentNanjing subprovincial city on the Changjiang, capital of Jiangsu province 江苏
  • - capital of China at different historical periodsTokyo, capital of Japan
  • - Tonkin (northern Vietnam during the French colonial period)Beijing opera
  • - Classifiers: 场 ,出 capital of a country