漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
震: quake, shake
Also: tremble, quiver, shiver
雨 carries the meaning · 辰 gives the sound
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
シンshin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 震動しんどうshock, tremor, impact
- 震度しんどJapanese earthquake scale
- 震源しんげんepicenter
- 震災しんさいearthquake (disaster)
- 地震じしんearthquake
- 強震きょうしんsevere earthquake
- 弱震じゃくしんmild earthquake
ふるうfuruu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 身震いするみぶるいするshiver, tremble, shudder
ふるえるfurueru · kun'yomi
- 震えるふるえるshiver, shake, quake [v.i.]
Also read ふるわせる, ふるわす, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)雨 (meaning) + 辰 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 震 (rev. 93443786), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Rain radical + to move/dragon (辰) = the violent shaking of the atmosphere and earth during a great storm.”
Connections
震 takes the 辰 family's reading, シン (shin).
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zhèn
Same form: 震 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 震 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 震 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.