zhēn
precious
Phonosemantic compound. 玉 represents the meaning and 㐱 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*trə[n] | trin | zhēn | precious thing |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 18.5167% of movies
1267th most common character in movies
1314th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+73CD |
Shuowen | “珍，寶也。从玉，聲。” |
Sources
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