沈

Shen3
#1,679 most
frequent character
surname Shen

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

沈 has 氵 water as a picture part and 冘 yín for the sound. It first meant an offering to a water god, with cows or sheep placed under water. Read shěn, it grew to pour and liquid; read chén, it grew to sink, submerge, and deep.

Drawn as: water

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Same Characters, Different Readings

沈Shen3
short name for 瀋陽|沈阳[Shen3 yang2]
沈shěn
(literary) juice
沈chén
variant of 沉[chen2]

Homophones

沈Shen3
short name for 瀋陽|沈阳[Shen3 yang2]

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