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鎮

zhèn

press down, town

Phonosemantic compound. 金 represents the meaning and 真 represents the sound.

Components
金 meaning component

金  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

真 sound component

真  Sound component

zhēn

  

real

Evolution

鎮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
鎮 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

镇 (鎮) 

zhèn

town, market place; suppress; to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks)

Most common words with 鎮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

镇

to calm

城镇

town

小镇

small town

乡镇

village

镇定

calm

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*t<r>i[n]-s

trinH

zhèn

press down


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 33.5736% of movies

931st most common character in movies

1002nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

镇

Unicode

U+93AE

Shuowen

“鎮，博壓也。从金，真聲。”


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