Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- chén
- Chén
English
- minister, statesman, official
- surname Chen
- state official or subject in dynastic China
- Kangxi radical 131
- I, your servant (used in addressing the sovereign)
- Kangxi radical 131
- a state official who serves a monarch
粵語
- 服務君王嘅官
Stroke order
As a component in · 175
Words containing 臣
- 大臣daai6 san4
chancellor (of a monarchy)
- 功臣gung1 san4
meritorious official
- 車臣ce1 san4
Chechnya, a republic in southwestern Russia
- 重臣zung6 san4
important minister
- 忠臣zung1 san4
faithful official
- 君臣gwan1 san4
a ruler and his ministers (old)
- 拉臣laai1 san2
license (a loanword)
- 臣子san4 zi2
official in feudal court
- 花臣faa1 san2
tricks; gimmicks; fashion (a loanword)
- 粒臣nap1 san2
unit of 10 Hong Kong cents (110th of a Hong Kong dollar) [colloquial]
- 箍臣ku1 san2
cushion (spoken)
- 臣服san4 fuk6
to acknowledge allegiance to (some regime)
- 人臣jan4 san4
an official (in former times)
- 內臣noi6 san4
chamberlain
- 文臣man4 san4
civilian court official (in former times)
- 稱臣cing1 san4
to surrender and obey to somebody; literally: to call oneself a courtier to somebody
- 近臣gan6 san4
member of a monarch's inner ministerial circle (old)
- 臣屬san4 suk6
official in feudal court
- 史臣si2 san4
official in charge of public records
- 微臣mei4 san4
this small official
- 爭臣zang1 san4
minister not afraid to give forthright criticism
- 弄臣lung6 san4
emperor's favorite courtier
- 老臣子lou5 san4 zi2
long server staff (spoken)
- 彎臣waang1 san2
totally out of order