shèn
act with care
Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 真 represents the sound. Simplified form of 昚.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]i[n]-s | dzyinH | shèn | careful |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.6428% of movies
2134th most common character in movies
1765th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+614E |
Shuowen | “慎，謹也。从心，真聲。昚，古文。” |
Sources
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