沈
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(literary) juice
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 水 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 沈
- Common rank
- #2,504
- Unicode
- U+6C88
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Formation & memory
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How 沈 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 meaning “water” + 冘 sound ()
Components 氵 冘
How to remember it
Shen · Heisig RSH #2501
水 water + Frankenbowser Rex
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 沈
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沈北新区 | Shenbei New District, a district of Shenyang City 瀋陽市|沈阳市[Shen3 yang2 Shi4], Liaoning | |
| 沈阳市 | Shenyang, sub-provincial city and capital of Liaoning Province 遼寧省|辽宁省[Liao2 ning2 Sheng3] | |
| 沈河区 | Shenhe, a district of Shenyang City 瀋陽市|沈阳市[Shen3 yang2 Shi4], Liaoning | |
| 沈国放 | Shen Guofang (1952-), PRC assistant minister of foreign affairs (2003-2005) | |
| 沈阳故宫 | Mukden Palace, aka Shenyang Imperial Palace, the main imperial palace during the early yea… | |
| 沈从文 | Shen Congwen (1902-1988), novelist | |
| 沈丘县 | Shenqiu, a county in Zhoukou City 周口市[Zhou1 kou3 Shi4], Henan | |
| 沈阳 | see 瀋陽市|沈阳市[Shen3 yang2 Shi4] | |
| 沈河 | see 瀋河區|沈河区[Shen3 he2 Qu1] | |
| 沈北 | see 沈北新區|沈北新区[Shen3 bei3 Xin1 qu1] | |
| 沈约 | Shen Yue (441-513), writer and historian during Liang of Southern dynasties 南朝梁, compiler … | |
| 沈复 | Shen Fu (1763-c. 1810), Qing dynasty writer, author of Six Records of a Floating Life 浮生六記… | |
| 辽沈战役 | Liaoshen Campaign (Sep-Nov 1948), the first of the three major campaigns by the People's L… | |
| 沈丘 | see 沈丘縣|沈丘县[Shen3 qiu1 Xian4] | |
| 沈括 | Shen Kuo (1031-1095), Chinese polymath, scientist and statesman of Song dynasty, author of… | |
| 沈莹 | Shen Ying of Wu, governor (268-280) of coastal province of Wu and compiler of Seaboard Geo… | |
| 沈葆桢 | Shen Baozhen (1820-1879), Qing Minister of the Navy, founded Fuzhou Naval College 船政學堂|船政学… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 冘 — compare how they read.