chēn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (place name) Chenzhou, a city in Hunan

Examples

郴州湖南南部
Chēnzhōu zài Húnán nánbù.
Chenzhou is in the south of Hunan Province.
Guǎngzhōu dào Chēnzhōu de gāotiě yì ge duō xiǎoshí.
The high-speed train from Guangzhou to Chenzhou takes just over an hour.

Tips

culture
A dedicated place-name character. 郴州 (Chenzhou) is a prefecture-level city in southern 湖南, historically a mining region and the only city whose name uses this character — so seeing almost always points to Chenzhou.

Components

radical
city; settlement (right-side radical)
The right-side ear is the city radical in compact form. On the right it always means 'town/place', which is why is purely a place name, like built the same way.
phonetic
lín
forest (phonetic)
The left side 'forest' supplies the sound (lín drifting to chēn). It also hints at the wooded hill country around Chenzhou, though its main job here is phonetic.

Stroke Order

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