绅
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member of gentry
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 糸 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 紳
- Common rank
- #3,712
- Unicode
- U+7EC5
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
gentry · Heisig RSH #2392
thread + monkey
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 绅
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 太平绅士 | Justice of the Peace (JP) | |
| 土豪劣绅 | local bosses, shady gentry (idiom); dominant local mafia | |
| 绅士 | gentleman | |
| 乡绅 | a scholar or government official living in one's village; a village gentleman; squire | |
| 豪绅 | local despot | |
| 劣绅 | evil gentry; wicked landlord |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 申 — compare how they read.