伸 — Chinese character
伸
shēn
to extend, to stretch out, to open up; to trust
- Pinyin
- shēn
- Radical
- 9 ⼈ (Man)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 亻 申
- Formation
- ideographic — To extend your confidence 申 to another person 亻; 申 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 伸 as a kanji
Common words with 伸
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 延伸 | yán shēn | to extend; to stretch; to expand; to spread |
| 伸出 | shēn chū | to extend |
| 伸手 | shēn shǒu | to reach out with one's hand; to hold out a hand |
| 伸展 | shēn zhǎn | stretching; extension |
| 伸缩 (伸縮) | shēn suō | to lengthen and shorten; flexible |
| 伸张 (伸張) | shēn zhāng | to uphold (e.g. justice or virtue); to promote |
| 拉伸 | lā shēn | to draw; to stretch |
| 伸长 (伸長) | shēn cháng | to stretch; to extend |
| 伸直 | shēn zhí | to straighten; to stretch out |
| 伸开 (伸開) | shēn kāi | to stretch out (one's arms or legs etc) |
| 伸展台 (伸展臺) | shēn zhǎn tái | runway (for a fashion show etc); catwalk |
| 伸冤 | shēn yuān | to right wrongs; to redress an injustice |
English words written with 伸
伸 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Art of War 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.