zhěn
thick hair
Variant of 鬒. Depicts a person (人) with thick hair (彡).
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*t[ə][n]ʔ | tsyinX | zhěn | thick hair |
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+3431 |
Shuowen | “,禂髮也。从彡,从人。《詩》曰:‘髮如雲。’鬒,或从髟,眞聲。” |
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