zhěn

Components

Meaning component
grain stalk

grain

Sound component
zhēn real

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsyinXti[n]ʔdense, compact
Zhengzhangʔljin
ʔljinʔ

說文解字

穜穊也。从禾眞聲。《周禮》曰:“稹理而堅。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica