zhèn
press down, town
Phonosemantic compound. 钅 represents the meaning and 真 represents the sound. Simplified form of 鎮.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 33.5736% of movies
931st most common character in movies
1002nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9547 |
Sources
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