珍
珍 — jin
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 보배 진
- Romanization
- jin
- English
- precious, valuable, rare
- Mandarin
- zhēn
- Japanese on'yomi
- チン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- めずら.しい たから
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,330 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 玉 (96, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+73CD
How 珍 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 珍 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 玉, 㐱.
Korean example words with 珍
- 진객珍客 Korean gloss: 귀한 손님
- 진서珍書 Korean gloss: 진귀한 책
- 진적珍籍 Korean gloss: 진귀한 책
- 진과珍果 Korean gloss: 진귀한 과실
- 진품珍品 Korean gloss: 진귀한 물품
- 진주珍酒 Korean gloss: 아주 귀한 술
- 진효珍肴 Korean gloss: 진귀하고 맛있는 안주
- 진경珍景 Korean gloss: 진귀한 경치나 구경거리
- 진담珍談 Korean gloss: 진귀하고 기이한 이야기
- 진수珍羞 Korean gloss: 진귀하고 맛이 좋은 음식
- 진찬珍饌 Korean gloss: 진귀하고 맛이 좋은 음식
- 진미珍味 Korean gloss: 음식의 아주 좋은 맛. 또는 그런 맛이 나는 음식물
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 珍
- 珍ちん rare; strange; odd
- 珍重ちんちょう prizing; valuing highly; esteeming
- 珍しいめずらしい rare; uncommon; unusual
- 珍味ちんみ delicacy; dainties
- 珍品ちんぴん curio; rare article
- 珍事ちんじ strange incident; unusual occurrence; rare event
- 珍妙ちんみょう queer; odd; fantastic
- 珍奇ちんき strange; rare; novel
- 珍客ちんきゃく unexpected (but welcome) visitor; rare guest
- 珍什ちんじゅう rare article; rare utensil
- 珍獣ちんじゅう rare (or peculiar) animal
- 珍説ちんせつ odd theory; strange view; absurd opinion
Other hanja read “진”
Other hanja with radical 玉
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