Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zhēn
English
- virtuous, chaste, pure
- chaste
- loyal
- firm; determined
- chaste
粵語
- 堅定;效忠
- 純潔
As a component in · 48
Variants
Words containing 貞
- 貞操zing1 cou1
(usually of women) chastity
- 忠貞zung1 zing1
loyal and dependable
- 童貞tung4 zing1
virginity
- 貞節zing1 zit3
chastity
- 貞潔zing1 git3
chastity
- 貞烈zing1 lit6
ready to die to preserve one's chastity
- 貞節牌坊zing1 zit3 paai4 fong1
memorial arch in honor of a chaste widow
- 女貞neoi5 zing1
privet (genus Ligustrum)
- 貞女zing1 neoi5
female virgin
- 安貞on1 zing1
Antei (Japanese reign name, 1227-1229)
- 貞德zing1 dak1
Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English
- 貞豐zing1 fung1
see 貞豐縣|贞丰县[Zhen1 feng1 Xian4]
- 堅貞gin1 zing1
firm
- 白素貞baak6 sou3 zing1
(name of a person) Bai Suzhen, from Madame White Snake
- 貞操帶zing1 cou1 daai3
chastity belt
- 永貞革新wing5 zing1 gaak3 san1
Yongzhen Reform, Tang dynasty failed reform movement of 805 led by Wang Shuwen 王叔文[Wang2 Shu1 wen2]
- 堅貞不屈gin1 zing1 bat1 wat1
faithful and unchanging (idiom); steadfast
- 忠貞不渝zung1 zing1 bat1 jyu4
unswerving in one's loyalty (idiom); faithful and constant
- 馬永貞maa5 wing5 zing1
Ma Wing Jing, a famous martial artist in the Qing dynasty [written and colloquial]
- 貞豐縣zing1 fung1 jyun6
Zhenfeng, a county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 黔西南布依族苗族自治州[Qian2 xi1 nan2 Bu4 yi1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Guizhou
- 蘇貞昌sou1 zing1 coeng1
Su Tseng-chang (1947-), Taiwanese DPP politician, premier of the Republic of China (2019-)
- 陳綺貞can4 ji2 zing1
Cheer Chen Cho Chen, a Taiwanese singer
- 三貞九烈saam1 zing1 gau2 lit6
(of a widow) faithful to the death to her husband's memory
- 永貞內禪wing5 zing1 noi6 sin6
Yongzhen abdication of 805