甚

shén

HSK 43 readings

“Excessive” in Chinese is 甚 (shén).

Other characters with the syllable shen: see all 12 →

Meaning

excessive; undue
to exceed; to be more than
very; extremely

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variant of 什[shen2]
(dialect) what; whatever

Example

他们甚至没办法写自己的名字。

They didn't even know how to write their own names.

From 甚至 · Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Readings

shènexcessive; undue / to exceed; to be more than / very; extremely / (dialect) what; whatever
shénvariant of 什

Stroke Order

9 strokes

Words containing 甚

甚至shènzhìeven; so much so thatHSK 4 甚至于shènzhìyúso much (that)HSK 7-9

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