甚
Meanings
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- 1.variant of 什[shén]
- 1.excessive; undue
- 2.to exceed; to be more than
- 3.very; extremely
- 4.(dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. [shén])
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Wiktionary
- 1.serious; extreme; excessive
- 2.extremely; considerably; very
- 3.to exceed; to surpass
- 4.a surname
- 5.what
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 甘 + 匕. STEDT considers it to be from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-(t/d)jam (“full; flat; straight”) and cognate with 斟 (OC *kljum, “to pour”), 淫 (OC *lɯm, “excessive”) and Tibetan གཏམས (gtams, “to fill up”).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
你想要甚麼？
What would you like?
你發現了甚麼？
What did you find out?
我甚麼都能吃。
I can eat anything.
湯姆在說甚麼？
What's Tom saying?
那為甚麼不好？
Why isn't that good?
湯姆在藏甚麼。
Tom was hiding something.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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