cén

river in Shaanxi

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

water

岑 sound component

  Sound component

cén

  

steep

Evolution

涔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
涔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

cén

river in Shaanxi; murky torrent; overflow; rainwater; tearful

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4706th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6D94

Shuowen

“涔,潰也。一曰涔陽渚,在郢中。从水,岑聲。”


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