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赈

zhèn

Character Traditional 賑

What 赈 means

1. to provide relief
2. to aid

Words starting with 赈

• 赈灾zhèn zāidisaster relief
• 赈恤zhèn xùrelief aid
• 赈捐zhèn juānmoney donation to relieve distress or famine
• 赈济zhèn jìto give relief aid

Words containing 赈

• 以工代赈yǐ gōng dài zhènto provide work to relieve poverty

Characters built on 辰

These share the phonetic component 辰 (chén), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 振zhènto shake; to flap; to vibrate
• 震zhènto shake; to vibrate; to jolt
• 晨chénmorning; dawn; daybreak
• 娠shēnpregnant
• 宸chénimperial apartments
• 蜃shèngiant clam; (mythology) clam-monster said to breathe out a vapor that forms a mirage of…

Characters that look like 赈

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 眼yǎneye; (often used with 一; small hole
• 租zūto hire; to rent; to charter
• 眠miánto sleep; to hibernate
• 稀xīsparse; scattered; rare; uncommon; diluted; thin; watery
• 酥sūflaky pastry; crunchy; limp
• 眸móupupil (of the eye); eye

Sounds the same

Read zhèn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 阵disposition of troops; wave; spate
• 振to shake; to flap; to vibrate
• 震to shake; to vibrate; to jolt
• 镇to press down; to calm; to subdue
• 朕(used by an emperor or king) I; me; we (royal "we"); (literary) omen
• 圳(dialect) drainage ditch between fields (Taiwan pr. zùn); used in place names, notably 深圳
• 鸩legendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison; poisonous; to poison sb
• 眹pupil
• 揕to hit; to thrust
• 酖poisonous; to poison
• 瑱jade weight
• 鎭old variant of 镇