鎮

鎮 U+93AE, 鎮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-93AE ← 鎭 [U+93AD] CJK Unified Ideographs 鎯 → [U+93AF]

See also: 鎭 and 镇

Translingual

Simplified	镇
Traditional	鎮
Japanese	鎮
Korean	鎭

Han character

鎮 (radical 167 金+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 金十月金 (CJBC), four-corner 8418₁, composition ⿰金真)

1. paperweight
2. town, market place
3. pacify, tranquilize, suppress

References

• KangXi: page 1318, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40745
• Dae Jaweon: page 1818, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4238, character 1
• Unihan data for U+93AE

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Chinese

trad.		鎮/鎭
simp.		镇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (眞) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
寘	*tjels
䡩	*kʰriːn
黰	*ʔriːn, *ʔljinʔ
顛	*tiːn, *tʰiːns
滇	*tiːn, *tʰiːns, *diːn
齻	*tiːn
槙	*tiːn, *tjinʔ
瘨	*tiːn
傎	*tiːn
蹎	*tiːn
厧	*tiːn
巔	*tiːn
癲	*tiːn
瑱	*tʰiːns, *tins
填	*diːn, *diːns, *tin, *tins
窴	*diːn, *diːns
闐	*diːn, *diːns
磌	*diːn, *tjin
鷏	*diːn
嗔	*diːn, *tʰjin
搷	*diːn
鎮	*tin, *tins
縝	*tʰin, *ʔljinʔ, *tʰjin
眞	*ʔljin
禛	*tjin
稹	*ʔljin, *ʔljinʔ
蒖	*tjin
鬒	*ʔljinʔ
瞋	*tʰjin
謓	*tʰjin
慎	*djins

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhèn (zhen⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zan³
• Min Nan (POJ): tìn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhèn
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄣˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chên⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jenn
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zan³
    • Yale: jan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzan³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zen³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐn³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tìn
    • Tâi-lô: tìn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dixn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tin⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tin¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tin²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tin²¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tin²¹/

Definitions

鎮

1. to guard; garrison
   • 鎮守 / 镇守  ―  zhènshǒu  ―  to guard
2. to calm; to tranquil; to sedate
   • 鎮定 / 镇定  ―  zhèndìng  ―  calm
   • 鎮痛 / 镇痛  ―  zhèntòng  ―  pain killer
3. to suppress; to repress; to subdue
   • 鎮住 / 镇住  ―  zhènzhù  ―  to dominate, to subdue
   • 鎮壓 / 镇压  ―  zhènyā  ―  repression
4. (food or drinks) to cool; to chill
   • 冰鎮 / 冰镇  ―  bīngzhèn  ―  iced

Noun

鎮

1. town; township
   • 這個鎮建於1610年。 / 这个镇建于1610年。  ―  Zhè ge zhèn jiàn yú 1610 nián.  ―  The town was founded in 1610.

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Japanese

Kanji

鎮

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ちん (chin)
• Kan’on: ちん (chin)
• On: てん (ten)
• Kun: しずめる (shizumeru), おさえ (osae), しずまる (shizumaru)

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Korean

Hanja

鎮 • (jin) (hangeul 진, revised jin, McCune-Reischauer chin, Yale cin)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鎮 (trấn, chắn, chận, dấn, sán, sấn, trớn, giấn)

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