You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Shen (shěn); Kangxi strokes: 15; Page 1169, Entry 01 Pronounced shen (third tone), same pronunciation as shen. Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): To advise deeply and earnestly. Erya, Explanation of Words (Erya Shiyan): The meaning of thinking or longing. Commentary: To long for one another. Guangyun: To plan, to inform. Zuo Zhuan, Second Year of Duke Min: Previously, Xin Bo advised Duke Huan of Zhou. Also has the meaning of hiding or concealing. School Sayings of Confucius (Jiayu): Therefore, when dragons are reared, fish and sturgeon do not hide. Also pronounced shen (fourth tone), with the same meaning. Also pronounced nie (fourth tone). Lei Pian: Pronounced nie (fourth tone). The meaning of sound coming to a stop. Same as the character nian. Also pronounced shen (first tone). Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes (Xiaoya): Harnessing those four white-maned horses, galloping swiftly. Do I not wish to return, to think of my mother. Mao Commentary: Shen means to think or to long for. Zheng Commentary: Means to inform.