震颤

to tremble / to quiver

Characters and words in 震颤

to shake / to vibrate / to jolt / to quake / excited / shocked / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing thunder / ☳

震 = 辰 + 雨 : James II of England (zh) is taking part in a game show. His task is to carry a birthday cake (辰) to the other end of the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4) while it is raining (雨) heavily and an earthquake (震) is shaking (震) James II of England and the cake. James II of England has to take care to cancel out the vibrations caused by the earthquake or his cake will collapse.

颤

顫

chàn = ch + an4

to tremble / to shiver / to shake / to vibrate / Taiwan pr. [zhan4]

颤 = 亶 + 页 : Charlie Chaplin (ch) received a very sincere (亶) paper in the anthill's bathroom (an4). Trembling (颤) he receives a very high bill, but he vows to pay the bill because he is so sincere (亶).