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Kanji Detail for 鄭 - "polite, careful, dignified"

鄭

  • Meaning

    鄭 means "polite, careful, dignified."

    1. Polite - Careful and considerate in manner.

    2. Zheng - An ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    an ancient Chinese province

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    state in today's Henan; surname

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    Zheng, a Zhou-dynasty state in the vicinity of present-day Xinzheng 新鄭|新郑[Xin1 zheng4], a county-level city in Henan; abbr. for Zhengzhou 鄭州|郑州[Zheng4 zhou1], the capital of Henan; surname Zheng

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    state in today's Henan; surname

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    State name. Originally land within the royal domain of the Western Zhou capital. King Xuan enfeoffed his younger brother Duke Huan (You) here. Later moved to New Zheng. This was the Zheng state of Spring and Autumn period. Now Xinzheng County, Henan. During the Warring States period, it was destroyed by Han. At the end of Sui, Wang Shichong received abdication from Emperor Gong, established the era name Kaiming, and called his state Zheng, with its capital at present-day Luoyang County, Henan. Later annexed by Tang. | 鄭重. Having a sincere and earnest meaning. Found in the Book of Han.
  • Onyomitip

    jo(じょ) じょ

    tei(てい) てい

  • Kunyomitip

    nengo.ro(ねんごろ) ねんごろ

  • Strokestip

    15 strokes

  • Radicaltip

    邑 阝 (ozato・mura)

  • Related Keywords
    polite Zheng state ancient China Zhou dynasty courteous careful considerate refined dignified formal proper respectful mannered civil decorous gracious historical

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