很 — Chinese character
很
hěn
very, quite, much
- Pinyin
- hěn
- Radical
- 60 ⼻ (Step)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 彳 艮
- Formation
- pictophonetic — step; meaning component 彳; sound component 艮
- Japanese
- 很 as a kanji
Common words with 很
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不很 | bù hěn | not very |
| 很是 | hěn shì | (formal) very; quite; deeply (usu. followed by a two-syllable adjective or verb) |
| 得很 | de hěn | (after an adjective) very |
English words written with 很
很 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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