甚
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excessive; undue; to exceed; to be more than; very; extremely; (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. [shen2])
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 甘 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 甚
- Common rank
- #1,869
- Unicode
- U+751A
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 甚
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一之为甚 | once is more than enough (idiom) | |
| 自视甚高 | to think highly of oneself (idiom); giving oneself airs; arrogant and self-important | |
| 卑之，无甚高论 | my opinion, nothing very involved (idiom, humble expression); my humble point is a familia… | |
| 知之甚微 | to know very little about | |
| 不求甚解 | lit. not requiring a detailed understanding (idiom); only looking for an overview; not bot… | |
| 更有甚者 | furthermore (idiom) | |
| 甚而至于 | even; so much so that | |
| 逼人太甚 | to push sb too far; to go too far (in oppressing people) | |
| 不为已甚 | refrain from going to extremes in meting out punishment; not be too hard on subject | |
| 不甚 | (literary) not very | |
| 甚平 | jinbei, traditional Japanese two-piece clothing worn in the summer | |
| 火药味甚浓 | strong smell of gunpowder; fig. tense situation; standoff | |
| 欺人太甚 | (idiom) to bully intolerably | |
| 甚为 | very; extremely | |
| 甚至于 | so much (that); even (to the extent that) | |
| 甚而 | even; so much so that | |
| 卑之，毋甚高论 | my opinion, nothing very involved (idiom, humble expression); my humble point is a familia… | |
| 一之谓甚 | see 一之為甚|一之为甚[yi1 zhi1 wei2 shen4] | |
| 甚高频 | very high frequency (VHF) | |
| 甚微 | very small; very little; scant; minimal |
Sound family
These characters use 甚 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 甚 sound part | considerably; very, extremely; a great extent | |
| 勘 | to investigate; to survey, to explore; to compare; to collate | |
| 斟 | to deliberate, to gauge; to pour wine or tea | |
| 椹 | chopping board | |
| 葚 | mulberry fruit | |
| 谌 | faithful, sincere; surname | |
| 戡 | to subjugate, to subdue, to quell, to kill |