谌 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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chén

sincere

Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 甚 represents the sound. Simplified form of 諶.

Components

讠 Meaning component

yán

speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

甚 Sound component

shén, shèn

extremely

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Traditional script

Modern

Simplified script

Modern

Definitions

chén

sincere, faithful; surname; faithful; sincere

Chén

surname Chen

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4130th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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