chēn

county in Hunan province

Components
林 sound component

  Sound component

lín

  

forest

阝 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hill, place

place

Evolution

郴 Bronze script Mid Warring States (~300 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Warring States (~300 BC)
郴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
郴 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
郴 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

chēn

county in Hunan province; surname; name of a district in Hunan

Most common words with 郴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

郴州

a city in Hunan province

郴州市

Chenzhou prefecture-level city in Hunan

name of a district in Hunan

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5383rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+90F4

Shuowen

“郴,桂陽縣。从邑,林聲。”


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