shèn

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangdjɯnʔ

說文解字

社肉,盛以蜃,故謂之祳。天子所以親遺同姓。从示辰聲。《春秋傳》曰:“石尚來歸祳。”

Sources

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