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沈

Traditional: 瀋

shěn

shěn · sam2 (Jyutping)

  1. short name for 瀋陽|沈阳[Shen3 yang2]
  2. (literary) juice
  3. surname Shen

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

沈

Meaning
sink, submerge; addicted to; surname
Radical
氵
Strokes
7
Components
⿰氵冘
Cangjie
ELBU
Four-corner
3411.2

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