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震

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See also: ☳
震 U+9707, 震
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9707
← 霆
[U+9706]
CJK Unified Ideographs 霈 →
[U+9708]

Translingual

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Han character

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震 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+7, 15 strokes, Cangjie input 一月一一女 (MBMMV), four-corner 10232, composition ⿱雨辰)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1374, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42300
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1883, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4064, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9707

Chinese

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trad. 震
simp. # 震

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 震
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tjɯn): semantic 雨 + phonetic 辰 (OC *djɯn).

Etymology

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Related to 振 (OC *tjɯns, “to shake”), probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dar ~ d(u/i)r (“to tremble; to shiver”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation 1

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Note:
  • zen3 - literary;
  • ten3 - vernacular (“to shake”).
Note:
  • zing2 - literary;
  • dung3 - vernacular (“to shake”).
Note:
  • zhen4 - literary;
  • ten3 - vernacular (“to shake”).

Rime
Character 震
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 章刃切
Baxter tsyinH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕiɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕinH/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕjenH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cinH/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiĕnH/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭĕnH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhèn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zan3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 震
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhèn
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyinH ›
Old
Chinese
/*tər-s/
English clap of thunder

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 震
Reading # 1/1
No. 1367
Phonetic
component
辰
Rime
group
文
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
震
Old
Chinese
/*tjɯn/

Definitions

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震

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) thunder
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, of lightning) to strike
  3. to tremble; to shake; to jolt; to quake
  4. (literary, or in compounds) earthquake
    震央  ―  zhènyāng  ―  epicentre of an earthquake
  5. (literary, or in compounds, obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to be excited; to be aroused; to be shocked
  6. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to stir; to invigorate
  7. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) power; prestige; dignity
  8. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to fear; to tremble
  9. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) the east
  10. 4th of the 8 trigrams
  11. 51st hexagram of the I Ching
  12. (~國) (historical) Jin; Zhen (original name of the Balhae state)
  13. a surname
Synonyms
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  • (thunder): 雷 (léi); (Cantonese, Hokkien, Teochew) 雷公 (léigōng); (Jin) 忽雷
  • (to shake): 震動/震动 (zhèndòng)
  • (earthquake):
  • (to be excited):

Compounds

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References

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Pronunciation 2

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Definitions

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震

  1. alternative form of 娠 (shēn, “to be pregnant”)

Japanese

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Kanji

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震

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. to quake
  2. to tremble

Readings

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  • Go-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
  • Kun: ふるう (furuu, 震う, Jōyō)、ふるえる (furueru, 震える, Jōyō)

Compounds

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Etymology

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Kanji in this term
震
しん
Grade: S
on'yomi

Noun

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震(しん) • (shin) 

  1. the fourth of the eight trigrams of the I Ching ☳
    Hypernym: 八卦
    Coordinate terms: 乾, 兌, 離, 震, 巽, 坎, 艮, 坤
  2. the fifty-first of the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching ䷲
    Hypernym: 六十四卦

Korean

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Hanja

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震 (eum 진 (jin))

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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震: Hán Nôm readings: chấn, dấn

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