CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- zheng1
- English meanings
- open, open (the eyes)
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Left–right structure
Left–right arrangement: left 目; right 争.
Meaning & sound clues
目 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “eye”.
争 is identified as the sound component (zhēng). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 睁.
This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.
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Characters with the same pinyin, regardless of tone.
vie
levy
save; rescue
see 掙扎|挣扎[zheng1 zha2]
earn; struggle free
government; politics
exact
precisely
disease; symptom
zither; kite
to evaporate
proof
serious; surname Zheng
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