zhěn
noun #89,510

Meanings

  1. 1 the cross-board at the rear of a chariot box; by extension, a chariot (classical)
  2. 2 Zhen, one of the 28 lunar mansions (classical)

Examples

Zhěn shì èrshíbāxiù zhī yī.
Zhen is one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions.

Tips

history
is not used independently in modern Chinese. Its classical senses are the rear cross-rail of a chariot box (hence 'a chariot'), and 宿, one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions; a derived sense is grief, as in ('to grieve over'). The cart radical gives the chariot meaning.
register
Archaic and literary. You will meet only in classical text, astronomy, and old names, not in modern speech.

Components

radical
chē
cart; chariot
(cart) is the indexing radical on the left, marking as a chariot part, the rear rail of the carriage box, and by extension the chariot itself.
phonetic
zhěn
phonetic element
The right side is the small hair-tuft phonetic that also sounds and ; it supplies the reading for and carries no meaning here.

Stroke Order

zhěn