Character Contained In References Comments
 Simplified  Traditional  Ancient forms  Archaic forms
   traditional formhandwritten form

Variants

Phonetic

Semantic

Apparent
Mandarin
shen4, shen2, shi2
English
Definitions
very; what; considerably; extremely; great extent; more (than)
Mnemonic
Sweet satiety (compare )
Etymology
Notes
Ancient meaning was to be full; the archaic version of this character may have been related to and ; the introduction of pair is no doubt due to similarity in appearance to the bottom of the character at some stage