辰 — Chinese character
辰
chén
early morning; fortune, good luck; 5th terrestrial branch
- Pinyin
- chén
- Radical
- 161 ⾠ (Morning)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 厂 二
- Japanese
- 辰 as a kanji
Common words with 辰
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 诞辰 (誕辰) | dàn chén | birthday |
| 星辰 | xīng chén | stars |
| 时辰 (時辰) | shí chen | time; one of the 12 two-hour periods of the day |
| 壬辰 | rén chén | twenty-ninth year I5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2012 or 2072 |
| 生辰 | shēng chén | birthday |
| 寿辰 (壽辰) | shòu chén | birthday (of an old person) |
| 良辰美景 | liáng chén měi jǐng | fine time, beautiful scenery (idiom); everything lovely |
| 生辰八字 | shēng chén bā zì | one's birth data for astrological purposes, combined from year, month, day, hour, heavenly trunk and earthly branch |
| 辰时 (辰時) | chén shí | 7-9 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) |
| 忌辰 | jì chén | anniversary of a death |
| 辰光 | chén guāng | sunlight; (Wu dialect) time of the day |
| 辰砂 | chén shā | cinnabar |
English words written with 辰
辰 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 3 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Analects 2.1
- Mencius 4B.26
- Zhuangzi The Tao of God
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
- Zhuangzi Lieh Tzŭ
- The Doctrine of the Mean Passage 27
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