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沈

shěn

Character Traditional 瀋

What 沈 means

1. literaryjuice

Other readings

沈 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Shěnshort name for {沈阳|Shěn yáng}
• Shěnsurname Shen

Words starting with 沈

• 沈从文Shěn Cóng wénShen Congwen (1902-1988), novelist
• 沈阳市Shěn yáng ShìShenyang, sub-provincial city and capital of Liaoning Province 辽宁省
• 沈复Shěn FùShen Fu (1763-c. 1810), Qing dynasty writer, author of Six Records of a Floating Life 浮生六记
• 沈括Shěn KuòShen Kuo (1031-1095), Chinese polymath, scientist and statesman of Song dynasty, author…
• 沈约Shěn YuēShen Yue (441-513), writer and historian during Liang of Southern dynasties 南朝梁, compiler…
• 沈丘县Shěn qiū XiànShenqiu, a county in Zhoukou City 周口市
• 沈国放Shěn Guó fàngShen Guofang (1952-), PRC assistant minister of foreign affairs (2003-2005)
• 沈河区Shěn hé QūShenhe, a district of Shenyang City 沈阳市
• 沈北新区Shěn běi Xīn qūShenbei New District, a district of Shenyang City 沈阳市
• 沈阳故宫Shěn yáng Gù gōngMukden Palace, aka Shenyang Imperial Palace, the main imperial palace during the early…
• 沈莹Shěn YíngShen Ying of Wu, governor (268-280) of coastal province of Wu and compiler of Seaboard…
• 沈葆桢Shěn Bǎo zhēnShen Baozhen (1820-1879), Qing Minister of the Navy, founded Fuzhou Naval College 船政学堂
• 沈阳Shěn yángsee 沈阳市
• 沈丘Shěn qiūsee 沈丘县
• 沈北Shěn běisee 沈北新区
• 沈河Shěn hésee 沈河区

Words containing 沈

• 辽沈战役Liáo shěn Zhàn yìLiaoshen Campaign (Sep-Nov 1948), the first of the three major campaigns by the People's…

Characters built on 冘

These share the phonetic component 冘 (yín), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 枕zhěn(bound form) pillow; to rest one's head on (Taiwan pr. zhèn)
• 忱chénsincerity; honesty
• 鸩zhènlegendary bird whose feathers can be used as poison; poisonous; to poison sb

Characters that look like 沈

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 优yōuexcellent; superior
• 犹yóuas if; (just) like; just as
• 扰rǎoto disturb
• 沉chénto submerge; to immerse; to sink
• 拢lǒngto gather together; to collect; to approach; to draw near to; to add; to sum up
• 沅YuánYuan river in Guizhou and Hunan

Sounds the same

Read shěn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 审to examine; to investigate; carefully
• 婶wife of father's younger brother
• 哂(literary) to smile; to sneer
• 谂to know; to reprimand; to urge
• 矧(interrog.)
• 谉to investigate; to try (in court)
• 瞫surname Shen
• 渖old variant of 沈