zhèn

relieve

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
貝 meaning component

  Meaning component

bèi

  

sea shell

辰 sound component

  Sound component

chén

  

early morning

Evolution

賑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
賑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

zhèn

relieve, aid distressed; rich; to provide relief; to aid

Most common words with 賑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

赈灾

disaster relief

to aid

以工代赈

to provide work to relieve poverty

赈济

to give relief aid

赈恤

relief aid

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4123rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+8CD1

Shuowen

“賬,富也。从貝,辰聲。”


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