伸 (shēn)
to stretch/to extend
How 伸 is written
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 亻 — human
- Traditional
- 伸
- Simplified
- 伸 (unchanged)
Components
- 亻 human
- 日 sun/day
- 丨 line
Common words using 伸
- 伸出 shēnchū
- to extend
- 伸展 shēnzhǎn
- stretching; extension
- 伸手 shēnshǒu
- to hold out a hand; to ask for sth
- 延伸 yánshēn
- to extend; to spread
- 伸冤 shēnyuān
- to right wrongs; to redress an injustice
- 伸張 shēnzhāng
- to uphold (e.g. justice or virtue); to promote
- 伸懶腰 shēnlǎnyāo
- to stretch oneself
- 伸縮 shēnsuō
- to lengthen and shorten; flexible; adjustable
- 伸縮性 shēnsuōxìng
- flexibility
- 伸長 shēncháng
- to stretch; to extend
- 伸開 shēnkāi
- to stretch out
- 拉伸 lāshēn
- to draw; to stretch
伸 in a sentence
坐了整天的飛機，真想伸個懶腰。
Zuò le zhěngtiān de fēijī, zhēn xiǎng shēn ge lǎnyāo.
“After sitting on the plane all day, I really want to stretch my back.”
How common is 伸?
伸 is the 1,159th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 91.4% of all running text.
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