shén
spirit
Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 申 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.li[n] | zyin | shén | spirit |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 80.8586% of movies
329th most common character in movies
227th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+795E |
Shuowen | “神,天神,引出萬物者也。从示、申。” |
Sources
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