鎮
鎮 — jin
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
This is the Japanese glyph form. The Korean form is 鎭.
- Korean reading
- 누를 진
- Romanization
- jin
- English
- town, market place; suppress
- Mandarin
- zhèn
- Japanese on'yomi
- チン, テン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- しず.める しず.まる おさえ
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,617 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 18
- Variant forms
- 鎭
- Radical
- 金 (167, 10 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 眞
- Unicode
- U+93AE
Parts that make up 鎮
- 金 쇠 금, 성(姓) 김 흙 속에 묻힌 쇳덩이쇠붙이와 쇠로 만든 것, 돈
- 真 眞 과 같은 글자‘진·전’ 계열의 소리
How 鎮 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 鎮 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 金, 真.
Japanese words with 鎮
- 鎮圧ちんあつ suppression (of a riot, revolt, etc.); repression; putting down
- 重鎮じゅうちん leader; authority; mainstay
- 鎮魂ちんこん repose of a soul; ceremony for the repose of a departed soul
- 鎮痛剤ちんつうざい analgesic; painkiller; sedative
- 地鎮祭じちんさい ceremony for purifying a building site (before building commences); ground-breaking ceremony
- 鎮守ちんじゅ local Shinto deity; tutelary god
- 鎮定ちんてい suppression (e.g. of a rebellion); pacification
- 鎮火ちんか extinguishing; dying out (of a fire); putting out
- 鎮静ちんせい calming down; settling down; quieting down
- 鎮座ちんざ enshrinement (of a deity); residing (in a shrine or sacred place); sitting prominently (in a place)
- 鎮ちん a weight; temple supervisor; town (of China)
- 文鎮ぶんちん paperweight
Characters sharing the phonetic 眞
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “진”
Other hanja with radical 金
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