绅 (shēn): member of gentry
绅 (shēn) is a Chinese character meaning “member of gentry.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 纟 (semantic) and 申 (phonetic). It ranks #2454 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 绅 silk. Its radical form 纟 (silk) appears in many related characters such as 系 (xì, to connect), 累 (lěi, to accumulate), 绍 (shào, to continue).
Definitions
- member of gentry
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 绅士 | shēn shì | gentleman |
| 乡绅 | xiāng shēn | a scholar or government official living in one's village |
| 豪绅 | háo shēn | local despot |
| 太平绅士 | tài píng shēn shì | Justice of the Peace (JP) |
| 土豪劣绅 | tǔ háo liè shēn | local bosses, shady gentry (idiom) |
| 劣绅 | liè shēn | evil gentry |
绅 appears in 6 compound words: 17 as the first character, 67 as the last, and 17 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 绅 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
绅字由8笔画组成，结构很巧妙。
shēn zì yóu bǐ huà zǔ chéng , jié gòu hěn qiǎo miào .
The character "绅" consists of eight strokes and features a remarkably ingenious structure.
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dǒng dé yǎng xié cái shì zhēn shēn shì ! R o z a l l y zhí rén jiān xiū yuán mù kuò zhāng xié chēng . . .
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jīng diǎn sài xiàng wěi nèi ruì lā zhì yì hā bō shēn shì jǔ dòng fēng chuán : duì tā men mǎn mǎn zūn jìng
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他看上去是一个十足的绅士。
Tā kànshangqu shì yī gè shízú de shēnshì.
He looks every inch a gentleman.
这样的举止只可能是个绅士。
Zhèyàng de jǔzhǐ zhǐ kěnéng shì ge shēnshì.
He must be a gentleman to act that way.
一个绅士是不会做这种事的。
Yī gè shēnshì shì bù huì zuò zhèzhǒng shì de.
A gentleman wouldn't do such a thing.
那位绅士经常戴着一顶帽子。
Nà wèi shēnshì jīngcháng dài zhe yī dǐng màozi.
That gentleman usually wears a hat.
Character Family
纟 Radical Family — Characters sharing the silk radical
Frequently Asked Questions
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