甚

See also: 什

Translingual

Etymology

Compound 甘 + 匹.

Han character

甚 (radical 99 甘+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿一一女 (TMMV), four-corner 4471₁, composition ⿱甘匹)

1. great extent
2. considerably

Derived characters

• 勘

See also

• 其

References

• KangXi: page 754, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21648
• Dae Jaweon: page 1161, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 25, character 5
• Unihan data for U+751A

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		甚

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shén (shen²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sam⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shén
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄣˊ
    • Wade-Giles: shên²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shenr
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sam⁶
    • Yale: sahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sam⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /sɐm²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (甚, reconstructed)
Character (甚), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 常 (25) Final: 侵 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 常枕切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/d͡ʑiɪmX/	/ʑi̯əmX/	/ʑiəmX/	/d͡ʑimX/	/d͡ʑimX/	/ʑĭĕmX/	/d͡ʑjemX/
Character (甚), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 常 (25) Final: 侵 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 時鴆切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/d͡ʑiɪmH/	/ʑi̯əmH/	/ʑiəmH/	/d͡ʑimH/	/d͡ʑimH/	/ʑĭĕmH/	/d͡ʑjemH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (甚, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
甚								shèn								‹ dzyimX ›								/*[t.ɢ][ə]mʔ/								excessive, very
甚								shèn								‹ dzyimH ›								/*[t.ɢ][ə]mʔ-s/								excessive
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
甚					11296					甚					侵					3					甚					/*ɡljumʔ/
甚					11297					甚					侵					3					甚					/*ɡljums/

Compounds

1. 甚么 (what)

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Japanese

Kanji

甚

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: しん (shin), じん (jin)
• Kun: はなはだ (hanahada), なに (nani)

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Korean

Hanja

甚 (sim) (hangeul 심, revised sim, McCune-Reischauer sim, Yale sim)

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Vietnamese

Han character

甚 (thậm, rậm)

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