zhěn

thick hair

Variant of . Depicts a person () with thick hair ().

Components

Iconic component
rén, ren person
Iconic component
shān, xiǎn hair

hair


Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (4 of 10 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsyinXt[ə][n]ʔ thick hair

說文解字

《說文》:“,禂髮也。从彡,从人。《詩》曰:‘髮如雲。’鬒,或从髟,眞聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica