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CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- hen3
- English meanings
- pretty, thrice, monstrously, gey, quite, mighty, stinking, sopping, some, assai, full, most, clinking, much, thumping, awfully, fiendishly, thundering, very, real, really, bally, proper, grossly, powerful, so, rattling, well, considerably, greatly, terribly
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Left–right structure
Left–right arrangement: left 彳; right 艮.
Meaning & sound clues
彳 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “step”.
艮 is identified as the sound component (gěn). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 很.
This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.
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Characters with the same pinyin, regardless of tone.
hate
very
mark; trace; scar
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