Chinese Character Wiki

鄭

zhèng

state in today's Henan

Phonosemantic compound. ⻏ represents the meaning and 奠 represents the sound.

Components
⻏ meaning component

⻏  Meaning component

yì

  

city

⻏ is a component form of 邑.

奠 sound component

奠  Sound component

diàn

  

pay respect

Evolution

鄭 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

郑 (鄭) 

zhèng

state in today's Henan; surname

郑 (鄭) 

Zhèng

Zheng state during the Warring States period; surname Zheng; abbr. for 鄭州|郑州[Zhèng​zhōu]

Most common words with 鄭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

郑

surname Zheng

郑重

serious

郑州

Zhengzhou prefecture level city and capital of Henan Province in central China

郑州市

Zhengzhou prefecture level city and capital of Henan Province in central China

郑重其事

serious about the matter

Component uses

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

擲 躑

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]reŋ-s

drjengH

zhèng

Zhèng (a surname)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.2745% of movies

2697th most common character in movies

1132nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

郑

Unicode

U+912D

Shuowen

“鄭，京兆縣。周厲王子友所封。从邑，奠聲。宗周之滅，鄭徙潧洧之上，今新鄭是也。”


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