辰

辰 (radical 161, 辰+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一一一女 (MMMV), four-corner 7123₂, composition ⿸厂⿱二⿰𠄌⿺乀丿(GJK) or ⿸厂⿸⿱二𠄌⿺乀丿(HTV))

1. Kangxi radical #161, ⾠.

• Index:Chinese radical/辰
• 振 震 賑 赈

• KangXi: page 1252, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38682
• Dae Jaweon: page 1733, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3606, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8FB0

Historical forms of the character 辰
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – a kind of agricultural tool used for tilling the fields and removing weeds (Guo, 1931; Qiu, 1992), possibly made of a kind of large clam 蜃 (OC *djɯns, *djɯnʔ, *djins) (Guo, 1931).

Alternatively, it could be a pictogram (象形) of a person holding onto a cliff – original character of 振 (OC *tjɯn, *tjɯns, “to hold up”) (Shang, 1983).

“to vibrate”

Related to 震 (OC *tjɯn, “to shake”) and 振 (OC *tjɯn, *tjɯns, “to excite”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dar ~ d(u/i)r (“to tremble; to shiver”) (Schuessler, 2007).

“fifth earthly branch”

Norman (1985) suggests that it is from Austroasiatic; compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁la(a)n (“python”), whence Vietnamese trăn, Khmer ថ្លាន់ (thlan), Mon ကၠန် (klɔn). However, Ferlus (2013) points to reconstructions like *dər (Baxter & Sagart) and *ᴸdzɨr (Ferlus) and remarks that those do not match any animal's name in Mainland Southeast Asian (MSEA) languages. Therefore, 辰 might have been associated arbitrarily with the dragon (龍).

“time”

From 時 (OC *djɯ, “time”) + nominalizing suffix -n, literally “that which is proceeding” (Schuessler, 2007). This word partially converges with 晨 (OC *djɯn, *ɦljɯn, “morning”) (ibid.).

“heavenly body”

The endopassive of 振 (OC *tjɯn, *tjɯns, “to shake; to stir”), literally “to stir oneself”, i.e. “when life begins to stir” > “heavenly bodies that mark time” (ibid.).

辰

1. ^† to vibrate
2. fifth of twelve earthly branches (地支), variously equated with
   1. (Chinese zodiac) dragon (龍)
   2. (navigation) a bearing of 120° (between ESE and SE)
   3. (Chinese calendar) the 3rd lunar month (三月)
   4. (Chinese calendar) the 5th day or year in a dozen
   5. (Chinese timekeeping) the 2-hour period between 7 and 9 am
3. time; day; season
4. heavenly body; stars
5. ^† (Chinese astronomy) Alternative name for 心宿 (Xīnxiù, “Heart Mansion (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)”).
6. ^† (Chinese astronomy) Alternative name for 北極星／北极星 (Běijíxīng, “North Star”).
7. ^† Alternative form of 晨 (chén, “early morning”).
8. A surname​.

• (earthly branches) 地支; 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥

• (Min Nan) “Entry #3410”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. the dragon as the fifth sign in the Chinese zodiac

• Go-on: じん (jin)
• Kan-on: しん (shin)
• Kun: たつ (tatsu, 辰); とき (toki, 辰)
• Nanori: のぶ (nobu); のぶる (noburu)

From the verb たつ (tatsu, “to get up, to take off”) (whence also 竜 (tatsu, “dragon”)), from the notion of a dragon flying.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) たつ [tàtsú] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA^(key): [ta̠t͡sɨᵝ]
• Homophone: 竜

辰 (hiragana たつ, rōmaji Tatsu)

1. the Dragon, the fifth of the twelve Earthly Branches

辰 (hiragana たつ, rōmaji tatsu)

1. by extension from the zodiac:
   1. the name of the year or day corresponding to the fifth in a cycle of twelve
   2. roughly east-southeast, specifically 30° south of due east (i.e. a bearing of 120°)
   3. the hour of the dragon, specifically 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM; sometimes treated as 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM instead
   4. alternate name for 三月 (sangatsu, “the month of March”)

From Middle Chinese 辰 (dzyin)

辰 (hiragana しん, rōmaji Shin)

1. the Dragon, the fifth of the twelve Earthly Branches

辰 • (jin, sin)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 진, 신 (revised: jin, sin, McCune–Reischauer: chin, sin, Yale: cin, sin)
  • Name (hangeul): 별, 때

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辰 (thìn, thần, thì)

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