甚

See also: 其 and 什

Translingual

Han character

甚 (Kangxi radical 99, 甘+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿一一女 (TMMV), four-corner 4471₁, composition ⿱⿴龷𠄠⿺𠃊八(GV) or ⿱⿴龷𠄠⿺𠃊儿(JK) or ⿱⿴龷𠄠⿺㇄⿰丿㇄(HT))

Derived characters

• 勘

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		甚
simp. #		甚
alternative forms		𠥄 𠯕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 甚
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (甚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
湛	*ʔl'uːm, *r'uːmʔ, *l'um
媅	*ʔl'uːm
黮	*l̥ʰuːmʔ, *l'uːmʔ
糂	*sluːmʔ
堪	*kʰluːm
戡	*kʰluːm, *ʔl'umʔ
嵁	*kʰluːm, *ŋɡluːm, *ŋɡluːmʔ, *sɡruːmʔ, *kʰruːm
歁	*kʰluːmʔ, *kʰluːb
勘	*kʰluːms
磡	*kʰuːms
墈	*kʰuːms
偡	*r'uːmʔ
碪	*ʔl'um
椹	*ʔl'um
揕	*ʔl'ums
踸	*l̥ʰumʔ
鍖	*l̥ʰumʔ
斟	*kljum
諶	*ɡljum
愖	*ɡljum
瘎	*ɡljum
煁	*ɡljum
甚	*ɡljumʔ, *ɡljums
葚	*ɦljumʔ

Shuowen: Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 甘 + 匹.

Etymology 1

STEDT considers it to be from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-(t/d)jam (“full; flat; straight”) and cognate with 斟 (OC *kljum, “to pour”), 淫 (OC *lɯm, “excessive”) and Tibetan གཏམས (gtams, “to fill up”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 甚

1. serious; extreme
2. extremely; considerably
3. to exceed
4. a surname

Etymology 2

Pronunciation 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 甚 – see 什 (“ten families; etc.”). (This character is a variant traditional form of 什).

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shèn, shén

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄣˋ, ㄕㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sam⁶
• Jin (Wiktionary): seng³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shèn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shèn
    • Wade–Giles: shên⁴
    • Yale: shèn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shenn
    • Palladius: шэнь (šɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂən⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shén
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shén
    • Wade–Giles: shên²
    • Yale: shén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shern
    • Palladius: шэнь (šɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sam⁶
    • Yale: sahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sam⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sem⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐm²²/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: seng³
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /sə̃ŋ⁴⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 甚

1. (Jin, literary or dialectal Mandarin) what

   甚事？  ―  Shèn shì?  ―  What is it?

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Japanese

Kanji

甚

(Jōyō kanji)

1. tremendously
2. very
3. great
4. exceedingly

Readings

• Go-on: じん (jin, Jōyō)^{←じん (zin, historical)←じむ (zimu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: しん (shin)^{←しん (sin, historical)←しむ (simu, ancient)}
• Tō-on: そも (somo)
• Kun: はなはだ (hanahada, 甚だ, Jōyō); はなはだしい (hanahadashii, 甚だしい, Jōyō); なに (nani, 甚)

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Korean

Hanja

甚 (eumhun 심할 심) (simhal sim)))

1. great extent
2. considerably

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 甚 (thậm, rậm)

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