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辰

辰

Translingual

Stroke order

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 辰
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (辰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
辴 *tʰɯl, *tʰɯnʔ, *tʰɯn
屒 *tɯnʔ, *djɯn
振 *tjɯn, *tjɯns
侲 *tjɯn, *tjɯn
桭 *tjɯn, *djɯn
唇 *tjɯn, *ɦljun
帪 *tjɯn
賑 *tjɯnʔ, *tjɯns
裖 *tjɯnʔ
敐 *tjɯnʔ, *djɯn
震 *tjɯn
娠 *tjɯns, *hljɯn
蜃 *djɯns, *djɯnʔ, *djins
辰 *djɯn
晨 *djɯn, *ɦljɯn
宸 *djɯn
鷐 *djɯn
麎 *djɯn
祳 *djɯnʔ
脤 *djɯnʔ
鋠 *djɯnʔ
磭 *ŋrɯnʔ, *ŋ̥ʰjaɡ, *ŋaɡ
陙 *djun
脣 *ɦljun
漘 *ɦljun

Pictogram (象形) – a man with a hoe.

Han character

辰 (radical 161 辰+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一一一女 (MMMV), four-corner 71232)

  1. 5th earthly branch (支), a division of the orbit of Jupiter variously equated with
    1. (Chinese zodiac) dragon (龍)
    2. (navigation) a bearing of 120º (between ESE and SE)
    3. (Chinese calendar) the 3rd lunar month (三月)
    4. (Chinese calendar) the 5th day or year in a dozen
    5. (Chinese timekeeping) the 2-hour period between 7 and 9 am
  2. early morning generally
  3. eastern
  4. various early Korean states
  5. A surname​.
  6. Kangxi radical #161, ⾠ ‎(“morning”).

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1252, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38682
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1733, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3606, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8FB0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 辰

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 辰
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰən³⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰən²⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʰən⁴⁵/
/t͡sʰən⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰẽ⁴²/
Qingdao /tʃʰə̃⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰən⁴²/
Xi'an /ʂẽ²⁴/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʰə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰə̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡sʰən²¹³/
Chengdu /sən³¹/
Guiyang /sen²¹/
Kunming /ʂə̃³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰən²⁴/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰən⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zəŋ²³/
Suzhou /zən¹³/
Hangzhou /zen²¹³/
Wenzhou /zaŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /ɕiʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /ɕian⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ʂən¹³/
Xiangtan /sən¹²/
Gan Nanchang /sɨn⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /sən¹¹/
Taoyuan /ʃen¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sɐn²¹/
Nanning /sɐn²¹/
Hong Kong /sɐn²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sin³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /siŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /seiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /siŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tin³¹/
Rime
Character 辰
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 植鄰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑin/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑin/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiĕn/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chén
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 辰
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chén
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyin ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]ər/
English 5th earthly branch

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 辰
Reading # 1/1
No. 1372
Phonetic
component		 辰
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 辰
Old
Chinese		 /*djɯn/

Definitions

辰

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References

Japanese

Kanji

辰

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. the dragon as the fifth sign in the Chinese zodiac

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

From Sinitic 辰.

Noun

辰 ‎(hiragana しん, romaji shin)

  1. the dragon as the fifth sign in the Chinese zodiac

Etymology 2

By extension from the verb たつ ‎(tatsu, “to get up, to take off”), from the notion of a dragon flying.

Noun

辰 ‎(hiragana たつ, romaji tatsu)

  1. the dragon as the fifth sign in the Chinese zodiac
  2. by extension from the zodiac:
    1. the name of the year or day corresponding to the fifth in a cycle of twelve
    2. roughly east-southeast, specifically 30° south of due east (i.e. a bearing of 120°)
    3. the hour of the dragon, specifically 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM; sometimes treated as 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM instead
    4. alternate name for 三月 ‎(sangatsu, “the month of March”)
Derived terms
Idioms
  • 辰 (たつ)に巻 (ま)いて巳 (み)にこぼす ‎(tatsu ni maite mi ni kobosu): sunny one day, rainy the next

Korean

Hanja

辰 • ‎(jin, sin)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 진, 신 (revised: jin, sin, McCune-Reischauer: chin, sin, Yale: cin, sin)
  • Name (hangeul): 별, 때()
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Vietnamese

Han character

辰 (thìn, thần, thì)

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