箴 – vocab dash

Keyword

to warn

needle
probe
to admonish

Frequency: #3788
Strokes: 15

Readings

zhēn

Mnemonic

⺮ (bamboo) gives the meaning and 咸 the sound.

Stroke order

Composed of

⺮bamboo 咸all

Used in vocabulary

箴言zhēnyán

admonition; exhortation; dictum; the biblical Book of Proverbs

to warn; to admonish