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震

zhèn

shake

Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 辰 represents the sound.

Components
雨 meaning component

雨  Meaning component

yǔ, yù

  

rain

辰 sound component

辰  Sound component

chén

  

early morning

Evolution

震 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
震 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
震 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

震  

zhèn

shake, quake, tremor; excite; to shake; to vibrate; to jolt; to quake; excited; shocked; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[bā​guà], symbolizing thunder; ☳

Most common words with 震
Freq.
Word
Meaning

震惊

to shock

地震

earthquake

震

to shake

震撼

to shake

震荡

to shake up

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tər-s

tsyinH

zhèn

clap of thunder


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 21.2238% of movies

1382nd most common character in movies

1104th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+9707

Shuowen

“震，劈歷振物者。从雨，辰聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘震夷伯之廟。’ ，籀文震。”


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