证 zhèng
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 正 straight, right, proper, correct, just, true
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
证人
zhèngrén
witness
Characters in this word
人 rén
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 人 — man, person
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 关键证人临时改变证词，使案件的审理方向出现重大变化。 Guānjiàn zhèngrén línshí gǎibiàn zhèngcí, shǐ ànjiàn de shěnlǐ fāngxiàng chūxiàn zhòngdà biànhuà. A key witness changed testimony at the last minute, causing a major shift in the direction of the trial.
- 法庭上传唤了三位证人，他们的说法完全不同。 Fǎtíng shàng chuánhuànle sān wèi zhèngrén, tāmen de shuōfǎ wánquán bùtóng. The court summoned three witnesses, and their accounts were completely different.
- 警察正在寻找事故的目击证人，希望了解发生经过。 Jǐngchá zhèngzài xúnzhǎo shìgù de mùjī zhèngrén, xīwàng liǎojiě fāshēng jīngguò. The police are looking for eyewitnesses to the accident, hoping to learn how it happened.
Related words
- 保证 bǎozhèng to guarantee; to make sure
- 身份证 shēnfènzhèng identity card
- 证 zhèng certificate; identity card
- 证件 zhèngjiàn identity document
- 证据 zhèngjù evidence
- 证明 zhèngmíng to prove
- 签证 qiānzhèng visa
- 证实 zhèngshí to confirm
- 证书 zhèngshū certificate
- 验证 yànzhèng to verify
- 辩证 biànzhèng dialectical; to analyse dialectically
- 公证 gōngzhèng to notarise