呻
Tap the pinyin to hear it
(literary) to recite; to chant; to intone; (bound form) groan
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 口 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 呻
- Common rank
- #4,905
- Unicode
- U+547B
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 呻
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无病呻吟 | (idiom) to moan and groan despite not being sick; to feign illness; to complain without ca… | |
| 呻吟 | to moan; to groan |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 申 — compare how they read.