震

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 雨 + phonetic 辰.

Han character

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

1. shake, quake, tremor
2. excite
3. 4th of the 8 trigrams

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

震 (Yale jan3)

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Japanese

Kanji

震 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: しん (shin)
• Kun: ふるう (furuu), ふるえる (furueru)

Compounds

地震 (じしん, jishin)

震度 (しんど, shindo)

震動 (しんどう, shindō)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

震 (pinyin zhèn (zhen4), Wade-Giles chen⁴)

Compounds

• 震波
• 震颤
• 震荡
• 震动
• 震耳欲聋
• 震感
• 震古烁今
• 震骇
• 震撼
• 震级
• 震惊
• 震恐
• 震怒
• 震情
• 震慑
• 震天动地
• 震源
• 震灾
• 震中

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Vietnamese

Han character

震 (chấn, dấn)