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Kanji Detail for 鄭 - "polite"

鄭

  • Meaning

    鄭 means "polite." Also associated with zheng.

    1. Polite - Careful and considerate in manner.

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

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    • Verified meaning: polite
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read い, じゅん, じょう, じょん)
    • Also carries these associations: zheng

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 鄭

    Surnames 鄭(い)Listen 鄭(じゅん)Listen 鄭(じょう)Listen 鄭(じょん)Listen 鄭(じよん)Listen 鄭(ぜん)Listen 鄭(ちえん)Listen 鄭(ちゅう)Listen 鄭(ちゅん)Listen 鄭(ちょう)Listen 鄭(ちょん)Listen 鄭(ちよん)Listen

  • 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.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    joh(ジョウ) ジョウ

    tei(テイ) テイ

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    15 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    邑 阝 (ozato・mura)

  • Related Keywords

    polite zheng ancient chinese zhou dynasty careful considerate courteous respectful proper manner state govern correct rectify

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