振
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to shake; to flap; to vibrate; to resonate; to rise up with spirit; to rouse oneself
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 手 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 振
- Common rank
- #1,308
- Unicode
- U+632F
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
vibrate · Heisig RSH #2921
fingers + 辰 sign of the dragon
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 振
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 为之一振 | to be energized by it; to receive a boost from it | |
| 调和振动 | harmonic oscillation | |
| 振安区 | Zhen'an, a district of Dandong City 丹東市|丹东市[Dan1 dong1 Shi4], Liaoning | |
| 三振出局 | see 三振[san1 zhen4] | |
| 功能性磁共振成像 | functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) | |
| 振兴区 | Zhenxing, a district of Dandong City 丹東市|丹东市[Dan1 dong1 Shi4], Liaoning | |
| 功能磁共振成像术 | functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) | |
| 横振动 | transverse vibration | |
| 不振 | lacking in vitality; depressed (market, spirits etc) | |
| 振动 | to vibrate; to shake; vibration | |
| 振安 | see 振安區|振安区[Zhen4 an1 Qu1] | |
| 三振 | to strike out; strikeout (baseball, softball); (Tw) to ditch; to eliminate from considerat… | |
| 磁共振成像 | magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) | |
| 重振 | to revitalize; to restore (prestige, prosperity etc); revival; recovery | |
| 振作 | to bestir oneself; to pull oneself together; to cheer up; to uplift; to stimulate | |
| 振振有词 | to speak forcefully and with justice (idiom); to argue with the courage of one's convictio… | |
| 偏振光 | polarization of light; polarized light | |
| 核磁共振 | nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) | |
| 朝永振一郎 | TOMONAGA Shin'ichirō (1906-1979), Japanese physicist, 1965 Nobel prize laureate with Richa… | |
| 偏振波 | polarized wave |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 辰 — compare how they read.