漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
申: have the honor to, sign of the monkey
Also: 3-5PM, ninth sign of Chinese zodiac
日 and 丨 carry the meaning
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Today
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
シンshin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 申告するしんこくするfile report (about oneself)
- 申請するしんせいするwrite an application or petition
もうすmousu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 申すもうすsay [hum.]
もうし-moushi- · kun'yomi
- 申し訳ないもうしわけないinexcusable
- 申し分ないもうしぶんないperfect, beyond criticism
- 申し込むもうしこむapply for
Also read さる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
A bolt of lightning. Original character of 電 (“lightning”) and 神 (“god; deity; spirit”).
Source: Wiktionary, 申 (rev. 92201108), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The lifeblood of the village! Imagine a patchwork of green rice fields stretching across a fertile valley.”
Connections
申 gives its sound to
The family reading is シン (shin). Sound parts: KanjiVG.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shēn
Same form: 申 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 申 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 申 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shēn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.