振zhèn
to arouse, to excite; to rouse, to shake. 10 strokes, radical 扌, first met in HSK 5.
Pinyin zhènStrokes 10Radical 扌Band HSK 5Words 1
How to write 振
Strokes 1–3 write 扌, then strokes 4–10 write 辰.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 振 · the stroke-order rules
What 振 is made of
扌 (shǒu, hand) and 辰 (chén, early morning).
扌 carries the meaning — hand — and 辰 carries the sound.
Words that use 振
| 振动 | vibration 指物体来回快速抖动 大型机械剧烈振动引发故障。Violent vibration in the heavy machinery caused the fault. Lesson 525, 明断是非 · 知行合一与笃学求真 · Unity of Knowledge and Action & The Pursuit of Truth |
Characters that share the sound part 辰
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 扌
All 105 of them, and what the radical means, on the 手 radical page.