珍
Meanings
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- 1.precious thing
- 2.treasure
- 3.culinary delicacy
- 4.rare
- 5.valuable
- 6.to value highly
- 1.variant of 珍[zhēn]
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Wiktionary
- 1.treasure
- 2.precious; valuable; rare
- 3.to treasure; to value
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔl'ɯn): semantic 玉 + phonetic 㐱. Originally meant a rich, robust gemstone (玉), and then also developed the meaning of "rare". Compare Tibetan རིན (rin, “price; value”) (Schuessler, 2007).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
沒有什麼東西是跟愛一樣珍貴的。
Nothing is as precious as love.
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Derived terms
什襲珍藏什袭珍藏八珍八珍鹹粥八珍咸粥和隋之珍奇珍奇珍異寶奇珍异宝奇珍異物奇珍异物如數家珍如数家珍如獲珍寶如获珍宝家珍山珍海味山珍海錯山珍海错希世之珍席上之珍席珍席珍待聘弊帚自珍彌足珍貴弥足珍贵抱寶懷珍抱宝怀珍敝屣自珍敝帚自珍
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