zhěn

Components
禾 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

grain stalk

grain

真 sound component

  Sound component

zhēn

  

real

Evolution

稹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
稹 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

zhěn

to accumulate; fine and close

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ti[n]ʔ

tsyinX

zhěn

dense, compact


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4947th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+7A39

Shuowen

“稹,穜穊也。从禾,真聲。《周禮》曰:‘稹理而堅’。”


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