郴
chēn

county in Hunan province

Components

林
林 Sound component
lín forest
阝
阝 Meaning component
fù hill, place

place

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangr̥ʰɯm

說文解字

桂陽縣。从邑林聲。

Sources

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