申
to extend; to state; to explain; 9th earthly branch: 3-5 p.m., 7th solar month (7th August-7th September), year of the Monkey; ancient Chinese compass point: 240°
5 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,274 U+7533
How 申 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A bolt of lightning
How to remember it
express · Heisig RSH #918
tongue wagging in the mouth + walking stick — as a component also called: monkey
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 申 as their sound component
These characters all use 申 (shēn) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 申 sound component | shēn | to report; to extend; to explain; to declare |
| 神 | shén | god, spirit; divine, mysterious, supernatural |
| 审 | shěn | to examine, to investigate; to judge; to try |
| 砷 | shēn | arsenic |
| 绅 | shēn | girdle, tie; gentry; to bend |
| 胂 | shèn | arsine |
| 呻 | shēn | to moan, to groan; to chant |
| 抻 | chēn | to pull |
Words containing 申
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 布拉戈维申斯克 | Bù lā gē wéi shēn sī kè | Blagoveshchensk, Russian city on the border with China, administrative center of Amur Obla… |
| 波德申 | Bō dé shēn | Port Dickson (holiday destination in Malaysia) |
| 阿留申群岛 | Ā liú shēn Qún dǎo | Aleutian Islands (trailing 2250 km southwest of Alaska almost down to Kamtchatka) |
| 申报单 | shēn bào dān | declaration form |
| 甲申政变 | Jiǎ shēn zhèng biàn | unsuccessful and bloody Korean palace coup in 1884 by Westernisers against conservatives, … |
| 三令五申 | sān lìng wǔ shēn | to order again and again (idiom) |
| 申根区 | Shēn gēn qū | the Schengen area, a passport-free zone in Europe |
| 申命记 | Shēn mìng jì | Book of Deuteronomy; Fifth Book of Moses |
| 引申义 | yǐn shēn yì | extended meaning (of an expression); derived sense |
| 申理 | shēn lǐ | to right a wrong; to seek justice |
| 申不害 | Shēn Bù hài | Shen Buhai (385-337 BC), legalist political thinker |
| 申城 | Shēn chéng | alternative name for Shanghai 上海[Shang4 hai3]; alternative name for Xinyang City, Henan 信陽… |
| 申时 | shēn shí | 3-5 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) |
| 申通 | Shēn tōng | STO Express, courier service headquartered in Shanghai, founded in 1993 |
| 重申 | chóng shēn | to reaffirm; to reiterate |
| 申明 | shēn míng | to declare; to aver; to state formally |
| 申言 | shēn yán | to profess; to declare |
| 申报 | shēn bào | to report (to the authorities); to declare (to customs) |
| 申说 | shēn shuō | to state; to assert |
| 卢卡申科 | Lú kǎ shēn kē | Aleksandr Grigoryevich Lukachenko, president of Belarus from 1994 |