Character: 貞
Modern (Beijing) reading: zhēn ~ zhēng
Preclassic Old Chinese: treŋ
Classic Old Chinese: treŋ
Western Han Chinese: ṭeŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: ṭeŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: ṭeŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ṭeŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: ṭeŋ
Middle Chinese: ṭeŋ
Fanqie: 知嬰
Rhyme class: 庚
English meaning : to test, try out, correct
Russian meaning[s]: 1) прямой; правильный; честный; 2) добродетельный; целомудренный, чистый
Shuowen gloss: 卜問也. 從卜. 貝以為贄. 一曰. 鼎省聲. 京房所說.
Comments: Used also for a homonymous (perhaps originally same word) *treŋ 'lower trigram of divinatory hexagram'. A later semantic development is ('tried out, corrected' >) 'chaste, pure'.
Radical: 154
Four-angle index: 7992
Karlgren code: 0834 g-i
Vietnamese reading: trinh
