陣

See also: 阵

Translingual

Han character

陣 (radical 170 阜+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 弓中十田十 (NLJWJ), four-corner 7520₆, composition ⿰阝車)

References

• KangXi: page 1352, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41667
• Dae Jaweon: page 1854, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4129, character 7
• Unihan data for U+9663

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Chinese

trad.		陣
simp.		阵

Alternative forms

• 陳／陈

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhèn (zhen⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zan⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): tīn / chūn

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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: zan⁶
    • Yale: jahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzan⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐn²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tīn / chūn
    • Tâi-lô: tīn / tsūn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: din, zun
    • IPA (Taipei): /tin³³/, /t͡sun³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tin²²/, /t͡sun²²/
    • Note: tīn - vernacular, chūn - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: /ɖˠiɪn^H/▼

Rime
Character	陣
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	眞 (44)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	直刃切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiɪnH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖᵚinH/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡienH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖjinH/
Li Rong	/ȡjĕnH/
Wang Li	/ȡǐĕnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯ĕnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhèn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*lri[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'iŋs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	陣
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhèn
Middle Chinese	‹ drinH ›
Old Chinese	/*lri[n]-s/
English	battle array
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	陣
Reading #	1/1
No.	1396
Phonetic component	陳
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	敶
Old Chinese	/*l'iŋs/
Notes	同敶：俗今通用

Definitions

陣

1. A short moment of time.
2. Classifier for short periods of an event.

   一陣雨 / 一阵雨  ―  yī zhèn yǔ  ―  a brief spell of rain

3. column, row or file of troops

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #6816”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

陣

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: じん (jin)
• Kan’on: ちん (chin) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: じんだて (jindate), いくさ (ikusa)

Noun

陣 ‎(hiragana じん, romaji jin)

1. battle formation
2. camp

Suffix

陣 ‎(hiragana じん, romaji -jin)

1. group

   1万人以上 (まんにんいじょう)の講師陣 (こうしじん)

   1 man nin ijō no kōshi-jin

   a group of over 10,000 teachers

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

陣 (trận, giận, trặn, chận, chặn, chiến)

1. battle, fight

Usage notes

• Chữ Nôm. The modern Vietnamese word for battle is trận.
• This character only means silver in Vietnamese chữ Nôm. In Chinese, this character has a different meaning.

References

• www.chunom.org