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°
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How 辰 is formed
How to remember it
sign of the dragon · Heisig RSH #1467
cliff + 二 two + barrette
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 辰 as their sound component
These characters all use 辰 (chén) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 辰 sound component | chén | early morning; fortune, good luck; 5th terrestrial branch |
| 震 | zhèn | shake, quake, tremor; to excite |
| 振 | zhèn | to arouse, to excite; to rouse, to shake |
| 唇 | chún | lips |
| 晨 | chén | dawn, early morning |
| 赈 | zhèn | to relieve, to aid; rich |
| 娠 | shēn | pregnant |
| 蜃 | shèn | clam; sea serpent |
| 宸 | chén | imperial palace |
Words containing 辰
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 生辰八字 | shēng chén bā zì | one's birth data for astrological purposes, combined from year, month, day, hour, heavenly… |
| 十二时辰 | shí èr shí chen | twelve divisions of the day of early Chinese and Babylonian timekeeping and astronomy |
| 北辰区 | Běi chén qū | Beichen suburban district of Tianjin municipality 天津市[Tian1 jin1 shi4] |
| 良辰吉日 | liáng chén jí rì | fine time, lucky day (idiom); fig. good opportunity |
| 时辰未到 | shí chen wèi dào | the time has not yet come |
| 良辰美景 | liáng chén měi jǐng | fine time, beautiful scenery (idiom); everything lovely |
| 辰溪县 | Chén xī Xiàn | Chenxi, a county in Huaihua City 懷化市|怀化市[Huai2 hua4 Shi4], Hunan |
| 生辰 | shēng chén | birthday |
| 梁辰鱼 | Liáng Chén yú | Liang Chenyu (1521-1594), Ming dramatist of the Kunshan opera school |
| 时辰 | shí chen | time; one of the 12 two-hour periods of the day |
| 辰时 | chén shí | 7-9 am (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) |
| 辰光 | chén guāng | sunlight; (Wu dialect) time of the day; moment |
| 辰龙 | chén lóng | Year 5, year of the Dragon (e.g. 2000) |
| 星辰 | xīng chén | stars |
| 辰星 | Chén xīng | Mercury in traditional Chinese astronomy; see also 水星[shui3 xing1] |
| 北辰 | Běi chén | Polaris; North Star |
| 众星拱辰 | zhòng xīng gǒng chén | lit. all the stars revolve around Polaris 北辰[Bei3 chen2] (idiom, from Analects); fig. to v… |
| 甲辰 | jiǎ chén | 41st year A5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1964 or 2024 |
| 寿辰 | shòu chén | birthday (of an old person) |
| 辰溪 | Chén xī | see 辰溪縣|辰溪县[Chen2 xi1 Xian4] |