Chinese Character Wiki

楨

zhēn

hardwood

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

tree

貞 sound component

貞  Sound component

zhēn

  

virtuous

Evolution

楨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
楨 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
楨 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
楨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

桢 (楨) 

zhēn

hardwood; supports, posts; evergreen shrub

Most common words with 楨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

桢

evergreen shrub

竺可桢

Zhu Kezhen (1890-1974), Chinese metereologist and geologist

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3730th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

桢

Unicode

U+6968

Shuowen

“楨，剛木也。从木，貞聲。上郡有楨林縣。”


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