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Translingual

Han character

(radical 154 +2, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜月山金 (YBUC), four-corner 21806, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1204, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36658
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1665, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3622, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8C9E

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*rtaːŋs, *tʰeŋ, *tʰeŋs
*rtɯːŋs
*rdeːŋ, *teŋ
*teŋ
*teŋ
*teŋ
*tʰeŋ
*tʰeŋs

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂən⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂən⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂən²¹/
/t͡sən²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂəŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /tʃəŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂəŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /ʈ͡ʂẽ²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂəŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂə̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡sən⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sən⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡sen⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂə̃⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂən³¹/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂən²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡səŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂəŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡səŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡sən⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sen³³/
Wenzhou /t͡seŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕiʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕiɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂən³³/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂən³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sɨn⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sən⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /tʃen²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡seŋ⁵³/
Nanning /t͡seŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡siŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tiŋ⁵⁵/
/t͡siŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tiŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /teiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡seŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡seŋ²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (9)
Final () (121)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈiᴇŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈiɛŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶiæŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈiajŋ/
Li
Rong
/ȶiɛŋ/
Wang
Li
/ȶĭɛŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯ɛŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhēng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 17027
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*teŋ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. virtuous; chaste; pure
  2. loyal; faithful

Compounds

  • 一念堅貞一念坚贞
  • 三貞九烈三贞九烈
  • 不貞不贞 (bùzhēn)
  • 九烈三貞九烈三贞
  • 堅貞坚贞 (jiānzhēn)
  • 堅貞不屈坚贞不屈 (jiānzhēn bùqū)
  • 女貞酒女贞酒
  • 守貞守贞
  • 居貞居贞
  • 忠貞忠贞 (zhōngzhēn)
  • 忠貞不渝忠贞不渝
  • 童貞童贞 (tóngzhēn)
  • 縮屋稱貞缩屋称贞
  • 義貞义贞
  • 貞淑贞淑 (zhēnshū)
  • 貞潔贞洁 (zhēnjié)
  • 貞烈贞烈
  • 貞白贞白 (zhēnbái)
  • 貞石贞石
  • 貞節贞节 (zhēnjié)
  • 貞節牌坊贞节牌坊
  • 貞臣贞臣
  • 貞觀贞观
  • 貞觀之治贞观之治
  • 貞觀政要贞观政要
  • 貞靜贞静
  • 貞風亮節贞风亮节
  • 貞高絕俗贞高绝俗

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. virtue, faithfulness, uprighteousness
  2. chastity

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jeong) (hangeul , revised jeong, McCune-Reischauer chŏng, Yale ceng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(trinh, riêng, tranh)

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