shēn
extend
To extend your confidence 申 to another person 亻; 申 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 伸
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to stretch | ||
to extend | ||
to extend | ||
(fig.) to beg | ||
stretching |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥i[n] | syin | shēn | stretch, extend |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 19.1414% of movies
1573rd most common character in movies
1161st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+4F38 |
Shuowen | “伸，屈伸。从人，申聲。” |
Sources
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