漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
陣: camp, battle array
Also: ranks, position, sudden, brief time
JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
⻖ carries the meaning · 車 gives the sound
10 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ジンjin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 陣営じんえい
- 退陣たいじんresignation; stepping down; retirement
- 布陣ふじんbattle formation
- 初陣ういじんone's first campaign; one's first battle
- 出陣しゅつじんgoing into battle; departure for the front
- 陣地じんちencampment; position
- 陣頭じんとうhead of an army
- 陣中じんちゅうin camp; at the front
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Climb high! This radical represents the natural landscape of mounds, hills, and the protective physical barriers they provide for human settlements.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
The 車 sound family doesn't share one reading.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side陣 camp · ⻖
vs庫 warehouse · 广In ChineseSimplified 阵 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhèn
Japan keeps the traditional form 陣; mainland China simplifies it to 阵.
- Simplified
- 阵 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 陣 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhèn 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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