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震

震

Translingual

Han character

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

  1. shake, quake, tremor
  2. excite
  3. 4th of the 8 trigrams
  4. 51st hexagram of the I Ching

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 震

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (辰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
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, *ŋ̥ʰjaɡ, *ŋaɡ
陙 *djun
脣 *ɦljun
漘 *ɦljun

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

Pronunciation

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕinH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjenH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cinH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiĕnH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭĕnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhèn
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/

Verb

震

  1. to tremble; to shake; to vibrate; to jolt

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

震

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

震 • ‎(jin) (hangeul 진, revised jin, McCune-Reischauer chin, Yale cin)

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Vietnamese

Han character

震 (chấn, dấn)

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