塵 — Chinese character
塵
chén
cinders, ashes, dust, dirt
- Pinyin
- chén
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 鹿 土
- Formation
- ideographic — Dust 土 kicked up by a fleeing deer 鹿
- Simplified
- 尘
- Japanese
- 塵 as a kanji
塵 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 2 · Art of War 1 · Zhuangzi 11
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 4
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 56
- Art of War 9.23
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi The Evidence of Virtue Complete
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
- Zhuangzi Perfect Happiness
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.