chén
exhibit, display
Simplified form of 陳. Composed of 阝 and 东. The purpose of 东 is unclear.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 陈
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to lay out | ||
an assertion | ||
Chen Shui-Bian (1950-), Taiwanese DPP 民進黨|民进党 politician, president of the Republic of China 2000-2008 | ||
old | ||
old-fashioned |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 13.2468% of movies
1715th most common character in movies
525th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9648 |
Sources
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