漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
貞: upright, chastity
Also: constancy, righteousness
JLPT N19 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
卜 carries the meaning · 貝 carries meaning and sound
9 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
テイtei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 貞ていfirm adherence to one's principles
- 貞潔ていけつchastity; purity
- 貞淑ていしゅくchastity; virtue; fidelity
Also read ジョウ, ただしい, さだ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Treasure the moment! This radical represents the very origins of commerce and the primal concept of wealth.”
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Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 贞 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhēn
Japan keeps the traditional form 貞; mainland China simplifies it to 贞.
- Simplified
- 贞 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 貞 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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