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Kanji Detail for 貞 - "chaste, loyal, righteous"
貞
- Meaning
貞 means "chaste, loyal, righteous."
Chaste - Pure and virtuous; faithful.
Loyal - Steadfast in allegiance; faithful.
Righteous - Morally upright; proper.
Divination - The practice of seeking knowledge through signs.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
upright; chastity; constancy; righteousness
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
virtuous, chaste, pure; loyal
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
chaste
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
virtuous, chaste, pure; loyal
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Upright. Maintaining uprightness and being unshakable is called 貞. Such as 忠貞 (loyal and upright), 堅貞 (steadfast). Therefore in the past, women who did not lose their virtue were called 貞婦 (virtuous woman), 貞女 (chaste woman). | To divine. Asking about what is correct is called 貞. Such as in the Yijing: 貞吉 (divination auspicious), 貞厲 (divination severe).
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