鎮 (zhèn)
town; township; to suppress/calm
How 鎮 is written
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 金 — metal/gold
- Traditional
- 鎮
- Simplified
- 镇
Components
- 金 metal/gold
- 十 ten
- 目 eye
- 一 one
- 八 eight/divide
Common words using 鎮
- 城鎮 chéngzhèn
- town; cities and towns
- 鎮定 zhèndìng
- calm; unperturbed; cool
- 冰鎮 bīngzhèn
- iced
- 城鎮化 chéngzhènhuà
- urbanization
- 市鎮 shìzhèn
- small town
- 景德鎮 jǐngdézhèn
- Jingdezhen prefecture level city in Jiangxi province 江西, famous for porcelain
- 村鎮 cūnzhèn
- hamlet (place)
- 豐鎮 fēngzhèn
- Fengzhen city in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布|乌兰察布[Wu1 lan2 cha2 bu4], Inner Mongolia
- 鄉鎮 xiāngzhèn
- village; township
- 重鎮 zhòngzhèn
- strategic town
- 鎮住 zhènzhù
- to dominate; to control; to subdue
- 鎮區 zhènqū
- township
鎮 in a sentence
他是在一個小鎮長大的。
Tā shì zài yī gè xiǎozhèn zhǎngdà de.
“He grew up in a small town.”
How common is 鎮?
鎮 is the 1,000th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 89.2% of all running text.
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