鎮
zhèn HSK6

press down, town

镇 鎮 zhèn
town noun
town; administrative unit between a village and a city; trading center

您在镇上有一家米店。

nín zài zhèn shang yǒu yī​jiā mǐ diàn.

You own a rice shop in town.

镇上没有律师。

zhèn shang méi​yǒu lǜ​shī.

There are no lawyers in town.

to calm adjectivenoun
to settle or stabilize; to ease someone's feelings
to chill adjective
to cool or chill food or drinks by placing them in ice or cold water
to suppress
to press down; to keep down with weights; to subdue or suppress by force or magic
to guard
to guard or garrison a post with military force
[time]
(literary) whole; all; used to describe a full duration of time, as in 镇日 zhèn​rì
paperweight
(bound form) heavy object used to press things down, such as a paperweight; presser
garrison post
(bound form) a place of strategic military importance; garrison post
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,002nd most common 161.1 per million
Movie subtitles
931st most common 119.6 per million appears in 34% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
47.3 per million appears in 12% of films
Written text
90.0 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Simplified
镇
Strokes
18
Unicode
U+93AE

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)