zhēn

river in Henan

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

Sound component
qín feudal state of Qin

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangʔsrin

說文解字

水。出桂陽臨武,入匯。从水秦聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica