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The Kanji Map

Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N2

1330 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 9

Meaning: rare, curious, strange

Kunyomi: めずら.しい, たから

Onyomi: チン

Composition: 王 人 彡

珍

Radical

Radical: 玉

Reading: おうへん

Meaning: jade (king)

Strokes: 4

Reading: おうへん

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Examples

Examples with audio

珍味(ちんみ)   delicacy, dainty

珍品(ちんぴん)   curio, rare article

珍現象(ちんげんしょう)   strange phenomenon

珍妙な(ちんみょうな)   queer, odd

珍紛漢紛な(ちんぷんかんぷんな)   gibberish

珍重する(ちんちょうする)   prize, value highly, treasure

珍しい(めずらしい)   unusual, rare

Onyomi Examples

珍 (チン) rare, strange, odd, peculiar, curious

珍紛漢紛 (チンプンカンプン) unintelligible language, incoherent language, talking nonsense, babble, gibberish, jargon, gobbledygook

袖珍 (シュウチン) pocket size

繻珍 (シュチン) satin with raised figures

Kunyomi Examples

珍しい (めずらしい) rare, uncommon, unusual, curious, new, novel, fine, nice, splendid, precious

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