莘 — Chinese character
莘
shēn
numerous, long; a marsh plant with a medicinal root
- Pinyin
- shēn
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 艹 辛
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 辛
Common words with 莘
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 莘莘学子 (莘莘學子) | shēn shēn xué zǐ | a great number of students (idiom) |
| 莘莘 | shēn shēn | numerous |
莘 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 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.