shèn

Components

Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

organic compound

Sound component
shēn to extend

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangl̥ʰin
hlin

說文解字

夾𦟝肉也。从肉申聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica