Chinese Character Wiki
證

zhèng

proof

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

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

登 sound component

登  Sound component

dēng

  

rise

Evolution

證 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
證 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
證 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

证 (證) 

zhèng

proof, evidence; testify, verify; certificate; proof; to prove; to demonstrate; to confirm; variant of 症[zhèng]

Most common words with 證
Freq.
Word
Meaning

保证

guarantee

证明

proof

证据

evidence

证

proof

证券

certificate

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*təŋ-s

tsyingH

zhèng

testify, prove


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 85.8241% of movies

263rd most common character in movies

373rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

证

Unicode

U+8B49

Shuowen

“證，告也。从言，登聲。”


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