震
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Translingual
Han character
震 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一月一一女 (MBMMV), four-corner 10232, composition ⿱⻗辰)
Derived characters
References
- 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
| trad. | 震 | |
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| simp. # | 震 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 震 |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
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| Old Chinese | |
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| 辴 | *tʰɯl, *tʰɯnʔ, *tʰɯn |
| 屒 | *tɯnʔ, *djɯn |
| 振 | *tjɯn, *tjɯns |
| 侲 | *tjɯn, *tjɯn |
| 桭 | *tjɯn, *djɯn |
| 唇 | *tjɯn, *ɦljun |
| 帪 | *tjɯn |
| 賑 | *tjɯnʔ, *tjɯns |
| 裖 | *tjɯnʔ |
| 敐 | *tjɯnʔ, *djɯn |
| 震 | *tjɯn |
| 娠 | *tjɯns, *hljɯn |
| 蜃 | *djɯns, *djɯnʔ, *djins |
| 辰 | *djɯn |
| 晨 | *djɯn, *ɦljɯn |
| 宸 | *djɯn |
| 鷐 | *djɯn |
| 麎 | *djɯn |
| 祳 | *djɯnʔ |
| 脤 | *djɯnʔ |
| 鋠 | *djɯnʔ |
| 磭 | *ŋrɯnʔ, *ŋ̊ʰjaɡ, *ŋaɡ |
| 陙 | *djun |
| 脣 | *ɦljun |
| 漘 | *ɦljun |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tjɯn): semantic 雨 + phonetic 辰 (OC *djɯn).
Etymology
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
- Mandarin
- (Standard)
- (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): zen3 / ten3
- Cantonese
- Gan (Wiktionary): ziin4
- Hakka
- Jin (Wiktionary): zeng3
- Northern Min (KCR): cěng
- Eastern Min (BUC): cīng
- Southern Min
- Wu (Northern, Wugniu): 5tsen
- Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): zhen4 / ten3
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄓㄣˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: jhèn
- Wade–Giles: chên4
- Yale: jèn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jenn
- Palladius: чжэнь (čžɛnʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂən⁵¹/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: zen3 / ten3
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: zen / ten
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sən⁵³/, /tʰən⁵³/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Note:
- zen3 - literary;
- ten3 - vernacular (“to shake”).
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: zan3
- Yale: jan
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzan3
- Guangdong Romanization: zen3
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sɐn³³/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: zin2
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sin⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Gan
- (Nanchang)
- Wiktionary: ziin4
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sɨn³⁵/
- (Nanchang)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chṳ́n
- Hakka Romanization System: ziinˋ
- Hagfa Pinyim: zin3
- Sinological IPA: /t͡sɨn³¹/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: zeng3
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡səŋ⁴⁵/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: cěng
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡seiŋ²¹/
- (Jian'ou)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: cīng
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡siŋ³³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Southern Min
Note:
- zing2 - literary;
- dung3 - vernacular (“to shake”).
Note:
- zhen4 - literary;
- ten3 - vernacular (“to shake”).
- Middle Chinese: tsyinH
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*tər-s/
- (Zhengzhang): /*tjɯn/
Definitions
震
- † thunder
- † (of lightning) to strike
- to tremble; to shake; to jolt; to quake
- (literary, or in compounds) earthquake
- 震央 ― zhènyāng ― epicentre of an earthquake
- (literary, or in compounds) † to be excited; to be aroused; to be shocked
- † to stir; to invigorate
- † power; prestige; dignity
- † to fear; to tremble
- † the east
- 4th of the 8 trigrams
- 51st hexagram of the I Ching
- (～國) (historical) Jin; Zhen (original name of the Balhae state)
- a surname
Synonyms
- (thunder): 雷 (léi); (Cantonese, Hokkien, Teochew) 雷公 (léigōng); (Jin) 忽雷
- (to shake): 震動／震动 (zhèndòng)
- (earthquake):
Dialectal synonyms of 地震 (“(to have an) earthquake”)
- (to be excited):
Compounds
- 中源地震
- 名震一時 / 名震一时
- 喊聲震天 / 喊声震天 (hǎnshēngzhèntiān)
- 地震 (dìzhèn)
- 地震儀 / 地震仪 (dìzhènyí)
- 地震帶 / 地震带 (dìzhèndài)
- 地震強度 / 地震强度
- 地震規模 / 地震规模
- 天震地駭 / 天震地骇
- 威震 (wēizhèn)
- 威震八方
- 威震天下
- 威震寰宇
- 手震
- 抗震 (kàngzhèn)
- 撼天震地
- 有感地震
- 構造地震 / 构造地震
- 殷天震地
- 殺聲震天 / 杀声震天
- 海底地震
- 海震 (hǎizhèn)
- 深源地震
- 減震器 / 减震器 (jiǎnzhènqì)
- 無感地震 / 无感地震
- 爆震
- 眩目震耳
- 耐震 (nàizhèn)
- 聲威大震 / 声威大震 (shēngwēidàzhèn)
- 腦震盪 / 脑震荡 (nǎozhèndàng)
- 訇雷震
- 車震 / 车震 (chēzhèn)
- 防震
- 防震設計 / 防震设计
- 雷震
- 電震 / 电震 (diànzhèn)
- 震中 (zhènzhōng)
- 震動 / 震动 (zhèndòng)
- 震古爍今 / 震古烁今 (zhèngǔshuòjīn)
- 震古鑠今 / 震古铄今
- 震嚇 / 震吓
- 震天 (zhèntiān)
- 震天價響 / 震天价响
- 震天動地 / 震天动地
- 震天雷
- 震天駭地 / 震天骇地
- 震央 (zhènyāng)
- 震宕
- 震度 (zhèndù)
- 震怒 (zhènnù)
- 震怖 (zhènbù)
- 震恐 (zhènkǒng)
- 震悚
- 震悸
- 震悼
- 震情
- 震感 (zhèngǎn)
- 震愕
- 震慄 / 震栗
- 震懾 / 震慑 (zhènshè)
- 震懼 / 震惧
- 震撼 (zhènhàn)
- 震撼人心 (zhènhànrénxīn)
- 震撼力
- 震撼彈 / 震撼弹 (zhènhàndàn)
- 震旦 (Zhèndàn)
- 震旦方向
- 震曜
- 震服
- 震波 (zhènbō)
- 震波測勘 / 震波测勘
- 震測 / 震测
- 震源 (zhènyuán)
- 震澤 / 震泽
- 震災 / 震灾 (zhènzāi)
- 震盪 / 震荡 (zhèndàng)
- 震級 / 震级 (zhènjí)
- 震耳
- 震耳欲聾 / 震耳欲聋 (zhèn'ěryùlóng)
- 震蕩 / 震荡 (zhèndàng)
- 震譜 / 震谱
- 震霆
- 震震
- 震音 (zhènyīn)
- 震響 / 震响 (zhènxiǎng)
- 震顫 / 震颤 (zhènchàn)
- 震顫麻痺 / 震颤麻痹
- 震駭 / 震骇 (zhènhài)
- 震驚 / 震惊 (zhènjīng)
- 餘震 / 余震 (yúzhèn)
References
- “震”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Pronunciation 2
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄕㄣ
- Tongyong Pinyin: shen
- Wade–Giles: shên1
- Yale: shēn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shen
- Palladius: шэнь (šɛnʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʂən⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Definitions
震
Japanese
Kanji
震
Readings
Compounds
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
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| 震 |
| しん Grade: S |
| on'yomi |
Noun
- the fourth of the eight trigrams of the I Ching ☳
- the fifty-first of the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching ䷲
- Hypernym: 六十四卦
Korean
Hanja
震 • (jin) (hangeul 진, revised jin, McCune–Reischauer chin, Yale cin)
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Vietnamese
Han character
震: Hán Nôm readings: chấn, dấn
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