chēn
glare with anger
Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 真 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tʰi[n] | tsyhin | chēn | glare (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5846th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+778B |
Shuowen | “瞋，張目也。从目，真聲。，祕書瞋从戌。” |
Sources
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