郴

chēn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Chenzhou, a city in Hunan

Examples

HSK 6
郴州在湖南南部。
Chēnzhōu zài Húnán nánbù.
Chenzhou is in the south of Hunan Province.
HSK 6
Guǎngzhōu dào Chēnzhōu de gāotiě yí 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 郴 almost always points to Chenzhou.

Components

radical
阝 yì
city; settlement
The right-side ear 阝 is the city radical 邑 in compact form. On the right it always means 'town/place', which is why 郴 is purely a place name, like 鄢 built the same way.
phonetic
林 lín
forest
The left side 林 '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

郴 chēn