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蜃

shèn

Character

What 蜃 means

1. giant clam
2. (mythology) clam-monster said to breathe out a vapor that forms a mirage of buildings

Words starting with 蜃

• 蜃景shèn jǐngmirage

Words containing 蜃

• 海市蜃楼hǎi shì shèn lóu(idiom) (lit. and fig.) mirage

Characters built on 辰

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

• 振zhènto shake; to flap; to vibrate
• 震zhènto shake; to vibrate; to jolt
• 晨chénmorning; dawn; daybreak
• 娠shēnpregnant
• 宸chénimperial apartments
• 赈zhènto provide relief; to aid

Characters that look like 蜃

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

• 裔yì(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 华裔; (literary) distant lands
• 廉liánincorruptible; honest; inexpensive
• 麽mótiny; insignificant
• 詹zhān(literary) verbose; (literary) to arrive, to reach
• 屡lǚtime and again; repeatedly; frequently
• 罂yīngearthen jar with small mouth

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
• 瘆to terrify
• 葚used in 桑葚; also pr. rèn
• 胂arsine
• 椹used in 桑椹
• 脤sacrificial meat (raw)
• 愼variant of 慎