Read Edit View history 鎭 zhèn town Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 眞 represents the sound. Variant of 鎮. Components 釒 釒 Meaning component jīn metal 眞 眞 Sound component zhēn real Character Evolution Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Regular Modern ▼ More ▲ Less 說文解字 《說文》：“鎮，博壓也。从金，真聲。” Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical images Academia Sinica Etymology Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)
