Onyomi: チン · Kunyomi: たから, めずら.しい · Meanings: curious, rare, strange
Kanji for curious, rare, strange
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珍 is made from 王 (jade) on the left and 㐱 on the right. 王 represents jade, something beautiful and valuable. 㐱 suggests something fine, scattered, or uncommon. Jade is not something you find everywhere, and when something valuable is hard to find, it feels special. From this idea, 珍 came to mean rare, precious, or珍しい.
珍 is rare jade, something valuable and not common.
Imagine finding a small piece of jade (王) that almost no one has. Because it is hard to find, it feels precious. That rare value is 珍.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 珍 | ちん | rare | common Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Noun |
| 珍しい | めずらしい | rare, uncommon, unusual, curious | common JLPT-N4 I-adjective (keiyoushi) |
| 珍味 | ちんみ | delicacy, dainties | Noun |
| 珍紛漢紛 | ちんぷんかんぷん | unintelligible language, incoherent language, talking nonsense, babble, gibberish, jargon, gobbledygook | common Noun, Na-adjective (keiyodoshi) |
| 珍客 | ちんきゃく | unexpected (but welcome) visitor, rare guest | Noun |
| 珍事 | ちんじ | strange incident, unusual occurrence, rare event | Noun |
| 珍妙 | ちんみょう | queer, odd, fantastic | Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Noun |
| 珍重 | ちんちょう | prizing, valuing highly, esteeming | Noun, Suru verb |
| 珍品 | ちんぴん | curio, rare article | Noun |
| 狆穴子 | ちんあなご | spotted garden eel (Heteroconger hassi) | Noun |