圳 (zhèn): (dialect) drainage ditch between fields (Taiwan pr. )
圳 (zhèn) is a Chinese character meaning “(dialect) drainage ditch between fields (taiwan pr. ).” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 土 (structural) and 川 (structural). It ranks #9999 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 圳 a furrow cut in the earth 土 by a stream 川; 川 also provides the pronunciation. Its radical form 土 (earth) appears in many related characters such as 土 (tǔ, earth, soil), 地 (dì, earth, ground), 场 (chǎng, field, place).
Definitions
- (dialect) drainage ditch between fields (Taiwan pr. )
Etymology & Origin
ideographicA furrow cut in the earth 土 by a stream 川; 川 also provides the pronunciation
Decomposition: ⿰土川 (layout: left-right)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 深圳交易所 | shēn zhèn jiāo yì suǒ | Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) |
| 深圳证券交易所 | shēn zhèn zhèng quàn jiāo yì suǒ | Shenzhen Stock Exchange, abbr. to 深交所 |
| 深圳市 | shēn zhèn shì | Shenzhen, sub-provincial city in Guangdong Province 廣東省|广东省 |
| 深圳河proper-noun | shēn zhèn hé | Shenzhen or Shamchun river Guangdong, the border between Hong Kong new territories and PRC |
| 深圳proper-noun | shēn zhèn | see 深圳市 |
圳 appears in 5 compound words: 0 as the first character, 20 as the last, and 80 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 圳 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
春天到了，农民开始翻圳播种。
chūn tiān dào le , nóng mín kāi shǐ fān zhèn bō zhǒng .
Spring has arrived, and farmers have begun plowing the fields and sowing seeds.
竹市汀甫圳步道改善工程完工 议员促延伸“樱花小径”
zhú shì 汀 fǔ zhèn bù dào gǎi shàn gōng chéng wán gōng yì yuán cù yán shēn 樱 huā xiǎo jìng
Improvement Project for the Tingfu Canal Trail in Zhubei City Completed; Councilor Calls for Extension of the “Cherry Blossom Path”
Character Family
土 Radical Family — Characters sharing the earth radical
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