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Mythic Mandarin

甚 (shèn): meaning and stroke order

甚 (shèn) means excessive; undue, to exceed; to be more than, very; extremely.

甚

Simplified
甚
Traditional
甚 (same form)
Pinyin
shèn · shén

Stroke order of 甚

甚

  • shén variant of 什[shen2]
  • shèn excessive; undue; to exceed; to be more than
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 甚

  1. shèn
    • excessive; undue
    • to exceed; to be more than
    • very; extremely
    • (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. [shen2])
  2. shén
    • variant of 什[shen2]

Radical and structure

甚
Radical 甘 (Kangxi radical 99) · 9 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 甚

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).