真
/ʈ͡ʂən⁵⁵/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•true; genuine; real; actual · clear; distinct; sharp · really; truly; very; quite
Etimoloji
Bronze-inscription forms are composed of 貝／贝 (bèi) and 𠂈, or of 鼎 (dǐng) and 𠂈. 𠂈 is the original pictograph of 顛 (OC *tˤiŋ) (“to fall headlong; top of the head”). Oracle-bone forms are composed of 匕 (bǐ) (“spoon”) and 鼎 (dǐng). These have been read by some scholars as 真 (zhēn), but some of them are better interpreted as 肆 (sì) or 煮 (zhǔ). In Chu bamboo-slip script, forms with 鼎 (dǐng) became…