蜃

See also 蜄

Translingual

Han character

蜃 (radical 142 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一女中一戈 (MVLMI), four-corner 7113₆, composition ⿸辰虫)

1. marine monster which can change its shape
2. water spouts
3. clams

References

• KangXi: page 1084, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33089
• Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2854, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8703

External links

• Shen (clam-monster) article on Wikipedia

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Cantonese

Hanzi

蜃 (jyutping san4, san5, san6, Yale san4, san5, san6)

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Japanese

Kanji

蜃

Readings

• On: しん (shin), じん (jin)
• Kun: おおはまぐり (oohamaguri)

Compounds

• 蜃気楼
• 蜃蛤

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Korean

Hanja

蜃 (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune-Reischauer sin, Yale sin)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蜃 (pinyin shèn (shen4), Wade-Giles shen⁴)

Compounds

• 蜃景

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Vietnamese

Han character

蜃 (thận, thẩn, thằn)