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镇

鎮traditional

HSK 6#1583 by frequencyradical 钅

zhèn["n"]

small town; to calm; to press down; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; to cool or chill (food or drinks)

Examples

他刚来这镇上。

He's new in town.

这就是我跟你说的那个镇。

This is the town I told you about.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.