zhěn

cross board at rear of carriage

Components
車 meaning component

  Meaning component

chē

  

vehicle

cart

㐱 sound component

  Sound component

zhěn

  

thick hair

Evolution

軫 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
軫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

zhěn

cross board at rear of carriage; square; strongly (as of emotion)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tə[n]ʔ

tsyinX

zhěn

crossboard at back of carriage


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5511th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+8EEB

Shuowen

“軫,車後橫木也。从車,聲。”


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