震 means “quake, tremble, shake”

ふるえる · furueru

Also: quiver

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

ふるう, ふるえる, ふるわせる, ふるわす

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

シン

JLPT N2 · Taught in secondary school · 15 strokes

The story

Rain (雨) over 辰, the dragon of the zodiac: picture a storm-dragon thundering until the ground shakes. 地震 is an earthquake, 震える is to tremble, and Japanese news rates every quake by its 震度, the local shaking, on a scale up to 7.

Used in 地震 (jishin, earthquake), 震える (furueru, to tremble), and 震度 (shindo, seismic intensity)

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.