辰
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5th earthly branch: 7-9 a.m., 3rd solar month (5th April-4th May), year of the Dragon; ancient Chinese compass point: 120°
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 辰 itself
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 辰
- Common rank
- #2,046
- Unicode
- U+8FB0
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Formation & memory
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Words with 辰
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 生辰八字 | one's birth data for astrological purposes, combined from year, month, day, hour, heavenly… | |
| 十二时辰 | twelve divisions of the day of early Chinese and Babylonian timekeeping and astronomy | |
| 北辰区 | Beichen suburban district of Tianjin municipality 天津市[Tian1 jin1 shi4] | |
| 良辰吉日 | fine time, lucky day (idiom); fig. good opportunity | |
| 时辰未到 | the time has not yet come | |
| 良辰美景 | fine time, beautiful scenery (idiom); everything lovely | |
| 辰溪县 | Chenxi, a county in Huaihua City 懷化市|怀化市[Huai2 hua4 Shi4], Hunan | |
| 生辰 | birthday | |
| 梁辰鱼 | Liang Chenyu (1521-1594), Ming dramatist of the Kunshan opera school | |
| 时辰 | time; one of the 12 two-hour periods of the day | |
| 辰时 | 7-9 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) | |
| 辰光 | sunlight; (Wu dialect) time of the day; moment | |
| 辰龙 | Year 5, year of the Dragon (e.g. 2000) | |
| 星辰 | stars | |
| 辰星 | Mercury in traditional Chinese astronomy; see also 水星[shui3 xing1] | |
| 北辰 | Polaris; North Star | |
| 众星拱辰 | lit. all the stars revolve around Polaris 北辰[Bei3 chen2] (idiom, from Analects); fig. to v… | |
| 甲辰 | 41st year A5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1964 or 2024 | |
| 寿辰 | birthday (of an old person) | |
| 辰溪 | see 辰溪縣|辰溪县[Chen2 xi1 Xian4] |
Sound family
These characters use 辰 as their sound component — compare how they read.