chén
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) to trust; to believe
  2. 2 (classical) sincere; truly; surname Chen

Examples

Tā shì yígè chéngshí kěkào de rén.
He is an honest and trustworthy person.

Tips

history
Not used as an ordinary word in modern Chinese; it survives as a surname and in classical lines about trusting or relying on something. It is the speech radical plus phonetic .
register
Classical and literary; today seen mostly as a family name, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
yán
speech; words
The left-side speech radical, in compact form. It supplies the meaning, since trusting a statement is an act of words, grouping the word with and .
phonetic
shèn
very; what; phonetic
Fills the right side and carries the sound, drifted to chén. The same phonetic gives the reading of and ; here it lends pronunciation only.

Stroke Order

chén