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Translingual

Han character

(radical 99 +4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿一一女 (TMMV), four-corner 44711, composition)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 754, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21648
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1161, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 25, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+751A

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔl'uːm, *r'uːmʔ, *l'um
*ʔl'uːm
*l̥ʰuːmʔ, *l'uːmʔ
*sluːmʔ
*kʰluːm
*kʰluːm, *ʔl'umʔ
*kʰluːm, *ŋɡluːm, *ŋɡluːmʔ, *sɡruːmʔ, *kʰruːm
*kʰluːmʔ, *kʰluːb
*kʰluːms
*kʰuːms
*kʰuːms
*r'uːmʔ
*ʔl'um
*ʔl'um
*ʔl'ums
*l̥ʰumʔ
*l̥ʰumʔ
*kljum
*ɡljum
*ɡljum
*ɡljum
*ɡljum
*ɡljumʔ, *ɡljums
*ɦljumʔ

Shuowen:  + .

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʂən⁵¹/
Harbin /ʂən⁵³/
Tianjin /ʂən⁵³/
/sən⁵³/
Jinan /ʂẽ²¹/
Qingdao /ʃə̃⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʂən³¹²/
Xi'an /ʂẽ⁴⁴/
Xining /ʂə̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /ʂəŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /ʂə̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /ʂɤŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /sən³⁵/
Chengdu /sən¹³/
Guiyang /sen²¹³/
Kunming /ʂə̃²¹²/
Nanjing /ʂən⁴⁴/
Hefei /ʂən⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /səŋ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ʂəŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /sə̃ŋ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /zəŋ²³/
Suzhou /zən³¹/
Hangzhou /zen¹³/
Wenzhou /zaŋ³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ɕiʌ̃²²/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ʂən⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ʂən⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /sɨn²¹/
Hakka Meixian /səm⁵³/
Taoyuan /ʃem³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sɐm²²/
Nanning /sɐm²²/
Hong Kong /sɐm²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sim⁵³/
/sim²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /sɛiŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /seiŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /sim³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tim³³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (25) (25)
Final () (139) (139)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʑiɪmX/ /d͡ʑiɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ʑimX/ /d͡ʑimH/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʑjemX/ /d͡ʑjemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ʑimX/ /d͡ʑimH/
Li
Rong
/ʑiəmX/ /ʑiəmH/
Wang
Li
/ʑĭĕmX/ /ʑĭĕmH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʑi̯əmX/ /ʑi̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shèn shèn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shèn shèn
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzyimX › ‹ dzyimH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[t.ɢ][ə]mʔ/ /*[t.ɢ][ə]mʔ-s/
English excessive, very excessive

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 11296 11297
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡljumʔ/ /*ɡljums/

Definitions

  1. serious; extreme
  2. extremely; considerably
  3. to exceed
  4. what

Compounds

  • 一之為甚一之为甚
  • 一之謂甚一之谓甚
  • 不求甚解
  • 不為已甚不为已甚
  • 不甚 (bùshèn)
  • 不甚了了
  • 不甚合意
  • 做甚
  • 則甚则甚
  • 厥功甚偉厥功甚伟
  • 去泰去甚
  • 去甚去泰
  • 只甚
  • 名聲籍甚名声籍甚
  • 太甚
  • 家徒甚殷
  • 尤有甚者
  • 尤甚
  • 已甚 (yǐshèn)
  • 幸甚 (xìngshèn)
  • 忒甚
  • 日甚一日
  • 更甚
  • 欺人太甚 (qīréntàishèn)
  • 沒甚没甚
  • 沒甚意思没甚意思
  • 沒甚首尾没甚首尾
  • 甚且
  • 甚事
  • 甚人
  • 甚口
  • 甚囂塵上甚嚣尘上
  • 甚底
  • 甚或 (shènhuò)
  • 甚是 (shènshì)
  • 甚的
  • 甚而 (shèn'ér)
  • 甚至 (shènzhì)
  • 甚雨
  • 甚麼什么
  • 疾風甚雨疾风甚雨
  • 相得甚歡相得甚欢
  • 籍甚
  • 聲稱籍甚声称籍甚
  • 腹笥甚廣腹笥甚广
  • 自奉甚儉自奉甚俭
  • 莫此為甚莫此为甚
  • 著甚
  • 著甚來由著甚来由
  • 藉甚
  • 蝕甚蚀甚
  • 衣冠甚偉衣冠甚伟
  • 言之過甚言之过甚
  • 軒軒甚得轩轩甚得
  • 逼人太甚
  • 過從甚密过从甚密
  • 過甚过甚
  • 過甚其實过甚其实
  • 過甚其詞过甚其词

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(sim) (hangeul , revised sim, McCune-Reischauer sim, Yale sim)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thậm, rậm)

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