shēn
girdle
Phonosemantic compound. 纟 represents the meaning and 申 represents the sound. Simplified form of 紳.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 绅
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
gentleman | ||
member of gentry | ||
squire | ||
local bosses, shady gentry (idiom); dominant local mafia |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.8328% of movies
2115th most common character in movies
2554th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+7EC5 |
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