陈
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(bound form) to lay out; to exhibit; to display; (bound form) to narrate; to state; to explain; to tell; old; stale
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 阜 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 陳
- Common rank
- #867
- Unicode
- U+9648
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
exhibit · Heisig RSH #1250
pinnacle + rickshaw
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 陈
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 陈方安生 | Anson Chan (1940-), chief secretary for administration, Hong Kong (1997-2001) | |
| 陈天华 | Chen Tianhua (1875-1905), anti-Qing revolutionary from Hunan, drowned himself in Japan in … | |
| 推陈出新 | to push out the old and bring in the new (idiom); to innovate | |
| 推陈布新 | to push out the old and bring in the new (idiom); to innovate; to go beyond old ideas; adv… | |
| 陈纳德 | Claire Lee Chennault (1890–1958), American military aviator and brigadier general, command… | |
| 陈巴尔虎旗 | Old Barag Banner in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾市|呼伦贝尔市[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3 Shi4], Inner Mongolia | |
| 南朝陈 | Chen of the Southern dynasties (557-589) | |
| 陈元光 | Chen Yuanguang (657-711), Tang dynasty general with posthumous title 開漳聖王|开漳圣王[Kai1 zhang1… | |
| 陈云林 | Chen Yunlin (1941-), chairman of PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (… | |
| 陈化 | to age; to mature (wine, tea, cheese etc) | |
| 陈伯达 | Chen Boda (1904-1989), communist party theorist, interpreter of Maoism | |
| 陈年 | (of wine) aged; (of debts etc) old; longstanding | |
| 陈列台 | display stand; showcase stall | |
| 陈美 | Vanessa-Mae (1978–), Singaporean-born British violinist and skier | |
| 陈书 | History of Chen of the Southern Dynasties, ninth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi… | |
| 陈情 | to present a petition; to submit an appeal; to express a grievance to an authority | |
| 陈皮 | dried tangerine peel (used in cuisine and traditional Chinese medicine) | |
| 陈德良 | Tran Duc Luong (1937-), former president of Vietnam | |
| 陈说 | to state; to assert | |
| 陈词 | (formal) to state one's views (esp. in court); stale rhetoric; clichéd remarks |