漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
禎: happiness, blessed
Also: good fortune, auspicious
JLPT N113 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met
礻 carries the meaning · 貞 is drawn in
13 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
テイtei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 禎祥ていしょうgood omen
- 嘉禎かていKatei era (1235.9.19-1238.11.23)
Also read さいわい, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“A blessing on the left! When the altar "steps aside" to the left, it brings the protection of the gods to the character.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
貞
Also built on upright (貞)
In ChineseSimplified 祯 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhēn
Japan keeps the traditional form 禎; mainland China simplifies it to 祯.
- Simplified
- 祯 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 禎 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhēn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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