zhēn
needle
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 咸 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*t.[k]əm | tsyim | zhēn | needle |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4285th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+7BB4 |
Shuowen | “箴,綴衣箴也。从竹,咸聲。” |
Sources
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