眞 - Dong Chinese dictionary

zhēn

real

precious

Variant of 真. Based on the original meaning "precious", now written as 珍. The meaning later shifted to "genuine" and "true".

Components

𠂈 Sound component

diān, tiǎn

to fall forwards

Based on an ancient variant of 殄.

眞 and 𠂈 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

貝 Meaning component

bèi

sea shell

In ancient China, shells were considered precious and were used as currency.

丁 Sound component

dīng

cubes

眞 and 丁 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 丁 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

zhēn

real, actual, true, genuine; variant of 真[zhēn]

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (2 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

9765th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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