You Collection, Lower Volume. Radical: City (yì). Shěn. Kangxi Dictionary Stroke Count: 11 strokes. Page 1269, Item 4. The Expanded Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) state the pronunciation is a combination of sh and en, sounding the same as shěn. It refers to a place name. The Commentary of Zuo (Zuo Zhuan) in the seventeenth year of Duke Wen records: Zhou Gan defeated the Rong at Shenchui. Note: Shenchui was a territory belonging to the Zhou dynasty, located north of Xincheng County in Henan, where the Chui Pavilion was situated. It is also used as a surname. The Collected Rhymes records that this character is identical to the character shěn. Textual Research: Regarding the phrase Zhou Gan defeated the Rong at Shen in the seventeenth year of Duke Wen of the Commentary of Zuo, research indicates that the character chui should be added after shen. Accordingly, the character shen has been corrected to Shenchui to match the original text.