邢

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surname Xing, place name

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

邢 was the name of an old state. Its meaning part is an old shape of someone kneeling by a city wall, which gives 'city, state'. The part written 开 once was 井 jǐng, which carried the sound; today it does no work. From the state name came the surname.

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