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眹
zhèn

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Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangl'ɯnʔ

說文解字

目精也。从目灷聲。案:勝字賸,皆从朕聲。疑古以朕爲眹。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)