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Radical 161辰

辰 (Kangxi radical 161,辰+0, 7 strokes,cangjie input一一一女 (MMMV),four-corner7123₂,composition⿸厂⿱二⿰𠄌⿺乀丿(GJK) or⿸厂⿸⿱二𠄌⿺乀丿(HTV))

1. Kangxi radical #161,⾠.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/辰
• 侲,㖘,娠,帪,振,浱,𪺼,陙,桭,祳,脤,𤱼,䀼,𪿟,裖,𦁄,𦓶,蜄,𧣨,誫(𫍨),賑(赈),䟴,𨉎,𨌑,鋠(𫓵),𬴶,𩷩,𪘝
• 䣅,𢦿,敐,㰮,㲀,𣭽,䫃,𪁧,唇,𪣗,𡝌,𫸚,𢛚,㫳,𬅾,脣,蜃,𪓧,𧒏,𫤹,宸,𡷰,莀,晨,𤲆,䆣,震,𦻼,𣊤,𫘾,曟,屒,𢈫,𭼏,麎

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 1252, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38682
• Dae Jaweon: page 1733, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3606, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8FB0

• Unihan data for U+F971

Historical forms of the character辰
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – a kind of agricultural tool used for tilling the fields and removing weeds (Guo, 1931;Qiu, 1992), possibly made of a kind of large clam蜃 (OC*djɯns, *djɯnʔ, *djins) (Guo, 1931).

Alternatively, it could be a pictogram (象形) of a person holding onto a cliff – original character of振 (OC*tjɯn, *tjɯns, “to hold up”) (Shang, 1983).

“to vibrate”

Related to震 (OC*tjɯn, “to shake”) and振 (OC*tjɯn, *tjɯns, “to excite”), fromProto-Sino-Tibetan*dar ~ d(u/i)r(“to tremble; to shiver”) (Schuessler, 2007).

“fifth earthly branch”

Norman (1985) suggests that it is fromAustroasiatic; compareProto-Austroasiatic*tlan(“python”), whenceVietnamesetrăn,Khmerថ្លាន់(thlan),Monကၠန်(klɔn). However,Ferlus (2013) points to reconstructions like*dər (Baxter & Sagart) and*ᴸdzɨr (Ferlus) and remarks that those do not match any animal's name inMainland Southeast Asian (MSEA) languages. Therefore,辰 might have been associated arbitrarily with thedragon (龍).

Smith (2011) agrees with the proposal (e.g. byGuo, 1931) that辰 (OC dən) initially depicted an agricultural implement made from clams' shells and was the original form of蜃 (OC dəns, “mollusc, clam”); so he proposes that the fifth earthly branch depicted the moon's second waning-gibbous phase, which looks like a clam. He also suggests that辰 (chén) also represented the ovoid-shaped rising sun and is thus related to晨 (chén, “early morning”).

“time”

From時 (OC*djɯ, “time”) + nominalizing suffix-n, literally “that which is proceeding” (Schuessler, 2007). This word partially converges with晨 (OC*djɯn, *ɦljɯn, “morning”) (ibid.).

“heavenly body”

The endopassive of振 (OC*tjɯn, *tjɯns, “to shake; to stir”), literally “to stir oneself”, i.e. “when life begins to stir” > “heavenly bodies that mark time” (ibid.).

辰

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) tovibrate
2. fifth of twelveearthly branches (地支),variouslyequated with
   1. (Chinese zodiac)dragon (龍)
   2. (navigation) abearing of 120° (betweenESE andSE)
   3. (Chinese calendar) the 3rdlunarmonth (三月)
   4. (Chinese calendar) the 5thday oryear in adozen
   5. (Chinese timekeeping) the 2-hourperiod between 7 and 9am
3. time;day;season
4. heavenly body;stars
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, Chineseastronomy)Alternative name for心宿 (Xīnxiù, “Heart Mansion (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)”).
6. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, Chineseastronomy)Alternative name for北極星／北极星 (Běijíxīng, “North Star”).
7. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese)alternative form of晨(chén,“earlymorning”)
8. asurname

• (Min Nan)“辰”, in教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien),Ministry of Education, R.O.C.,2026.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. thedragon as the fifth sign in the Chinesezodiac

• Go-on:じん(jin)
• Kan-on:しん(shin)
• Kun:たつ(tatsu,辰)、とき(toki,辰)
• Nanori:のぶ(nobu)、のぶる(noburu)

JapaneseWikipedia has an article on:

辰

Wikipedia^ja

From the verbたつ(tatsu,“toget up, totake off”) (whence also竜(tatsu,“dragon”)), from the notion of a dragon flying.

• (Tokyo)たつ[tàtsú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ta̠t͡sɨ]

• Homophone:竜

辰(たつ)• (Tatsu) 

1. theDragon, the fifth of the twelveEarthly Branches

   Hypernyms:十二支,地支

   Coordinate terms:子,丑,寅,卯,辰,巳,午,未,申,酉,戌,亥

辰(たつ)• (tatsu) 

1. by extension from the zodiac:
   1. the name of the year or day corresponding to the fifth in a cycle of twelve
   2. roughlyeast-southeast, specifically 30° south ofdueeast (i.e. abearing of 120°)
   3. thehour of the dragon, specifically 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM; sometimes treated as 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM instead
   4. alternate name for三月(sangatsu,“the month of March”)

FromMiddle Chinese辰(dzyin).

辰(しん)• (Shin) 

1. theDragon, the fifth of the twelveEarthly Branches

   Hypernyms:十二支,地支

   Coordinate terms:子,丑,寅,卯,辰,巳,午,未,申,酉,戌,亥

• “^▲辰”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2026

FromMiddle Chinese辰 (MC dzyin).

• (SK Standard/Seoul)IPA^(key):[t͡ɕin]
• Phonetic hangul:[진]

KoreanWikisource has texts containing thehanja:

辰

辰 (eumhun별진(byeol jin))
辰 (eumhun다섯째지지진(daseotjjae jiji jin))

1. hanja form^? of진(“name of astar”)
2. hanja form^? of진(“theDragon, the fifth of the twelveEarthly Branches”)

FromMiddle Chinese辰 (MC dzyin).

• (SK Standard/Seoul)IPA^(key):[ɕʰin]
• Phonetic hangul:[신]

辰 (eumhun때신(ttae sin))

1. hanja form^? of신(“time”)

The semantics of thereadings of thisHanja are irregular with the exception of when "진 (辰,jin)" is used to mean "theDragon, the fifth of the twelveEarthly Branches" or certain historicalplacenames. The reading may notsemantically match its corresponding음훈 (音訓,eumhun, “reading of thesound andmeaning”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary,전자사전／電子字典.[2]

辰:Hán Việt readings:thần^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]},thìn^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}
辰:Nôm readings:thìn^{[1][2][3][4][6][7][8]},thì^[1][2][3],thời^[1][2][4],gìn^[2],thà^[2],thòi^[2]

辰• (Thìn)

1. chữ Hán form ofThìn(“fifth of the twelveearthly branches”)

   Hypernyms:地支,十二支

   Coordinate terms:子,丑,寅,卯,辰,巳,午,未,申,酉,戌,亥

Used as a substitute character of時 due tonaming taboos during theNguyễn dynasty.

辰• (thì,thời)

1. chữ Nôm form ofthì,thời(“time;period”)

   • 金榜掛名時[Classical Chinese,trad.]
     金榜挂名时[Classical Chinese,simp.]

     From:《神童詩》

     Kim bảng quải danh thì[Pinyin]

     The time when one’s name is hung on the golden board.

   • Ấu học ngũ ngôn thi (幼學五言詩 "Five-Character Poetry for Elementary Learners"), page17b

     及辰榜鐄撩𠸜

     Gặpthời bảng vàng treo tên

     The time when one’s name is hung on the golden board.

辰• (thì,thời)

1. chữ Nôm form ofthì,thời(“topic marker”)
   • Phan Bội Châu tiểu sử 潘佩珠小史,7b

     群舅㛪辰扒𠫾附載車烏蘇

     Còn cậu emthì bắt đi phụ tải xe ô tô

     As for the younger brother, he was made to help load the car.

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