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variant of 鎮|镇[zhèn]; town
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鎭 is a phono-semantic compound: the metal radical 金 (jīn) on the left indicates a heavy metal object or weight, and the right-hand component 眞 (zhēn) gives the sound. It is an orthographic variant of 鎮, using 眞 instead of 真 for the phonetic. Originally meaning the physical act of pressing down or suppressing with a heavy metal weight, the character's sense expanded to pacifying and establishing military control over a region, and eventually came to denote an administrative town or garrison settlement.
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