Chinese Character Wiki

諶

chén

sincere

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 甚 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

甚 sound component

甚  Sound component

shén, shèn

  

extremely

Evolution

諶 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
諶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
諶 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
諶 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
諶 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

谌 (諶) 

chén

sincere, faithful; surname; faithful; sincere

谌 (諶) 

Chén

surname Chen

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[t.ɢ][u]m

dzyim

chén

reliable, to trust


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4130th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

谌

Unicode

U+8AF6

Shuowen

“諶，誠諦也。从言，甚聲。《詩》曰：‘天難諶斯。’”


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