Chinese Character Wiki

涔

cén

river in Shaanxi

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

water

岑 sound component

岑  Sound component

cén

  

steep

Evolution

涔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
涔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

涔  

cén

river in Shaanxi; murky torrent; overflow; rainwater; tearful

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4706th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6D94

Shuowen

“涔，潰也。一曰涔陽渚，在郢中。从水，岑聲。”


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