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Translingual

Simplified

Traditional

Japanese

Korean

Han character

(radical 167 +10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 金十月金 (CJBC), four-corner 84181, composition)

  1. paperweight
  2. town, market place
  3. pacify, tranquilize, suppress

References

  • KangXi: page 1318, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40745
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1818, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4238, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+93AE

Chinese

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simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tjels
*kʰriːn
*ʔriːn, *ʔljinʔ
*tiːn, *tʰiːns
*tiːn, *tʰiːns, *diːn
*tiːn
*tiːn, *tjinʔ
*tiːn
*tiːn
*tiːn
*tiːn
*tiːn
*tiːn
*tʰiːns, *tins
*diːn, *diːns, *tin, *tins
*diːn, *diːns
*diːn, *diːns
*diːn, *tjin
*diːn
*diːn, *tʰjin
*diːn
*tin, *tins
*tʰin, *ʔljinʔ, *tʰjin
*ʔljin
*tjin
*ʔljin, *ʔljinʔ
*tjin
*ʔljinʔ
*tʰjin
*tʰjin
*djins

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. to guard; garrison
  2. to calm; to tranquil; to sedate
  3. to suppress; to repress; to subdue
    • /    zhènzhù   to dominate, to subdue
    • /    zhèn   repression
  4. (food or drinks) to cool; to chill
    • /    bīngzhèn   iced

Noun

  1. town; township

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jin) (hangeul , revised jin, McCune-Reischauer chin, Yale cin)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(trấn, chắn, chận, dấn, sán, sấn, trớn, giấn)

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