贞貞 in English

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 貞, the traditional character: 贞 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 20 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 守宫砂是中国古代用来验证女人贞操的方法.

  Shougongsha is an old Chinese technique to test a woman's virginity.

• 贞子意识到，在生命将尽之际，曾经平凡无奇的事物，也会散发永恒的美。

  Sadako realized that, near death, even what was once mundane glows with an everlasting beauty.

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