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shen

/ˈʃɛn/

shen noun: a deity or a spirit, in Chinese folk religion.

Noun (1)

shen (plural shens or shen)

  1. A deity or a spirit, in Chinese folk religion.

Noun (2)

shen (plural shens or shen)

  1. In Chinese mythology, a shapeshifting dragon or shellfish-type sea monster believed to create mirages.

Proper noun capitalized: Shen

Shen (plural Shens)

  1. A surname.
  2. A river in Hubei, China.
  3. (historical) A former prefecture of imperial China now within Hengshui, Hebei.

shen meaning in Malayalam

shen in Malayalam

ഷെൻ

Forms of shen

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Proper noun
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Origin of shen

Borrowed from Chinese 神 (shén).

Borrowed from Chinese 蜃 (shèn).

* As a Chinese surname of multiple origins: ** Mandarin form of 沈 ** Mandarin form of 申 (shēn) ** Mandarin form of 慎 (shèn) ** Mandarin form of 莘 (see Xin) ** Variant Romanization of 孫 /孙, see Sun. ** Variant Romanization of 陳 /陈 (chén), also another Mandarin form of 諶 /谌, see Chen. * As a European surname of multiple origins: ** Variant form of Dutch Schoen, from schoen (“shoe”) ** Variant form of German Schoen, from schön (“beautiful, nice”) * As a river and former Chinese prefecture, from the Wade–Giles and Hanyu Pinyin romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 深 (Shēn).

Phrases with shen

Words that rhyme with shen

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Questions about shen

What does shen mean?
Shen means a deity or a spirit, in Chinese folk religion.
What is shen in Malayalam?
Shen in Malayalam is ഷെൻ. See Shen meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is shen?
Shen can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce shen?
Shen is pronounced /ˈʃɛn/.
What is the plural of shen?
The plural of shen is shens.

Words near shen in the dictionary

  1. shemozzles
  2. shemozzling
  3. Shemu
  4. Shemwell
  5. Shemwells
  6. shen
  7. shen ring
  8. shen rings
  9. Shen-hsi
  10. Shen-Kan-Ning
  11. Shen-nung-chia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shen (page history and authors); Shen (page history and authors); shen (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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