枕 — Chinese character
枕
zhěn
pillow
- Pinyin
- zhěn
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 木 冘
- Formation
- pictophonetic — wood; meaning component 木; sound component 冘
- Japanese
- 枕 as a kanji
Common words with 枕
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 枕头 (枕頭) | zhěn tou | pillow |
| 高枕无忧 (高枕無憂) | gāo zhěn wú yōu | to sleep peacefully (idiom); (fig.) to rest easy |
| 枕木 | zhěn mù | railroad tie; sleeper |
| 头枕 (頭枕) | tóu zhěn | headrest |
| 枕套 | zhěn tào | pillowcase |
| 同床共枕 | tóng chuáng gòng zhěn | to share the bed; (fig.) to be married |
| 枕骨 | zhěn gǔ | occipital bone (back of the skull) |
| 轨枕 (軌枕) | guǐ zhěn | sleeper; tie |
| 枕叶 (枕葉) | zhěn yè | occipital lobe |
| 落枕 | lào zhěn | to have a stiff neck after sleeping; (of the head) to touch the pillow |
| 安枕 | ān zhěn | to sleep soundly; (fig.) to rest easy |
| 枕巾 | zhěn jīn | pillow cloth |
English words written with 枕
枕 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · I Ching 1 · Zhuangzi 2
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.