申
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to extend; to state; to explain; 9th earthly branch: 3-5 p.m., 7th solar month (7th August-7th September), year of the Monkey; ancient Chinese compass point: 240°
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- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 田 itself
- Structure
- Overlaid 叠加
- Traditional
- 申
- Common rank
- #1,274
- Unicode
- U+7533
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
express · Heisig RSH #918
tongue wagging in the mouth + walking stick — as a component also called: monkey
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 申
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 布拉戈维申斯克 | Blagoveshchensk, Russian city on the border with China, administrative center of Amur Obla… | |
| 波德申 | Port Dickson (holiday destination in Malaysia) | |
| 阿留申群岛 | Aleutian Islands (trailing 2250 km southwest of Alaska almost down to Kamtchatka) | |
| 申报单 | declaration form | |
| 甲申政变 | unsuccessful and bloody Korean palace coup in 1884 by Westernisers against conservatives, … | |
| 三令五申 | to order again and again (idiom) | |
| 申根区 | the Schengen area, a passport-free zone in Europe | |
| 申命记 | Book of Deuteronomy; Fifth Book of Moses | |
| 引申义 | extended meaning (of an expression); derived sense | |
| 申理 | to right a wrong; to seek justice | |
| 申不害 | Shen Buhai (385-337 BC), legalist political thinker | |
| 申城 | alternative name for Shanghai 上海[Shang4 hai3]; alternative name for Xinyang City, Henan 信陽… | |
| 申时 | 3-5 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) | |
| 申通 | STO Express, courier service headquartered in Shanghai, founded in 1993 | |
| 重申 | to reaffirm; to reiterate | |
| 申明 | to declare; to aver; to state formally | |
| 申言 | to profess; to declare | |
| 申报 | to report (to the authorities); to declare (to customs) | |
| 申说 | to state; to assert | |
| 卢卡申科 | Aleksandr Grigoryevich Lukachenko, president of Belarus from 1994 |
Sound family
These characters use 申 as their sound component — compare how they read.