震
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to shake; to vibrate; to jolt; to quake; excited; shocked; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing thunder; ☳
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 雨 +7
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 震
- Common rank
- #877
- Unicode
- U+9707
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Formation & memory
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Words with 震
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中国地震台网 | China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), the information hub of the China Earthquake Admin… | |
| 地震学家 | seismologist; earthquake scientist | |
| 震天动地 | to shake heaven and earth (idiom) | |
| 中国地震局 | China Earthquake Administration (CEA); State Seismological Bureau | |
| 国家地震局 | China Earthquake Administration (CEA); State Seismological Bureau | |
| 群发性地震 | earthquake swarm | |
| 地震活动带 | seismic zone; earthquake belt | |
| 关东地震 | Kantō earthquake of 1923, magnitude 8.2, that killed 200,000 people in the Tokyo area | |
| 地震区 | seismic zone; earthquake belt | |
| 声名大震 | to create a sensation | |
| 地震学 | seismology; science of earthquakes | |
| 环太平洋地震带 | Ring of Fire (circum-Pacific seismic belt) | |
| 中源地震 | medium depth earthquake (with epicenter 70-300 km deep) | |
| 四川大地震 | Great Sichuan Earthquake (2008) | |
| 震源机制 | (seismology) focal mechanism | |
| 威震天下 | to inspire awe throughout the empire (idiom) | |
| 唐山大地震 | Great Tangshan Earthquake (1976) | |
| 地震波 | seismic wave | |
| 地震带 | seismic zone; earthquake belt | |
| 地震速报 | real-time report of earthquake data; earthquake alert |
Sound family
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