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愼

shèn

Character

What 愼 means

1. variant of {慎|shèn}

Sounds the same

Read shèn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 甚excessive; undue; to exceed; to be more than; very; extremely
• 慎careful; cautious
• 渗to seep; to ooze; to horrify
• 肾kidney
• 蜃giant clam; (mythology) clam-monster said to breathe out a vapor that forms a mirage of…
• 瘆to terrify
• 葚used in 桑葚; also pr. rèn
• 胂arsine
• 椹used in 桑椹
• 脤sacrificial meat (raw)

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