甄 · zhēn
to examine, discern; to grade; a surname
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
to examine, discern; to grade; a surname
- Mandarin
- zhēn
- Cantonese
- jan1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 甄 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 견
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+7504
- Radical
- 瓦 · 98
- Strokes
- 13 · Unihan
- Residual
- 9
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
13 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 甄
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- tsyin · 側鄰 反切 · #401
- Middle Chinese
- kjien · 居延 反切 · #605
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 3444 · tsyin = 臻開三平眞章 · kjien = 山開三平仙見
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- zhēn
- kCantonese
- jan1
- kDefinition
- to examine, discern; to grade; a surname
- kTotalStrokes
- 13
- kRSUnicode
- 98.9
- kTGH
- 2013:5411
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- zhēn,zhèn,juàn 21427.140
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- zhēn 1466.100
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- zhēn 471.150
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- zhēn粵jan1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 側鄰 居延
- Kangxi positions
- 0750.230
- Guangyun positions
- 101.15 138.06
- GSR references
- 1251h
- Cangjie
- MGMVN
- Four-corner
- 1111.7