zhēn HSK4

needle

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsyimt.[k]əmneedle
Zhengzhangɡam
ɡram
kjɯm
Unicodejim

說文解字

所以縫也。从金咸聲。

Sources

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

𰾗 zhēn, qián needle Simplified

No origin information available for this character yet.

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode