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很

  • hěn (hen³) Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄏㄣˇ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • хын (hɨn, II) Mandarin, Dongan, Cyrillic
  • han² Cantonese, Jyutping
  • hen³ Gan, Wiktionary specific
  • hàn Hakka, Sixian, Phak fa su
  • heng² Jin, Wiktionary specific
  • hǎing Min Bei, 建寧羅馬字
  • hún Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • hín Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • heng² Min Nan, Teochew, Peng'im
  • ⁵hen Wu, Shanghai, Wugniu
  • ¹hen Wu, Shanghai, Wugniu
  • he³ Xiang, Changsha, Wiktionary specific
  • hen³ Xiang, Changsha, Wiktionary specific
  • hěn Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • hěn Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Tongyong Pinyin
  • hên³ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Wade–Giles
  • hěn Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Yale
  • heen Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatsyh
  • хэнь Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Cyrillic
  • /xən²¹⁴/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Sinological IPA
  • /xəŋ⁵¹/ Mandarin, Dongan, IPA
  • han² Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • hán Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • hen² Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou

Where it comes from

形聲漢字(上古 *ɡɯːnʔ):意符 彳 + 聲符 艮 (上古 *kɯːns) 。

“殘忍 (~ 狠);違逆;違抗” > “甚,非常” (自元朝)。對照蠻/蛮。

釋義

  1. obsolete 違逆;違抗
  2. 竭盡所能
  3. obsolete 狠的另一種寫法。 狠
  4. obsolete 紛爭,爭訟
  5. 甚、非常 他很高興。
  6. 尤其放在單音節形容詞之前 (無義,表示程度高) 我很好。

Similar: 不要太, 十分, 壞, 坏, 孔, 極其, 极其, 極度, 极度, 極為, 极为, 極端, 极端, 滾, 滚, 異常, 异常, 老大, 良, 超, 非常, 頗, 颇, 頗為, 颇为, 甚, 挺, 倍兒, 怪, 好

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In English

  • be used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective
  • very to a high degree
  • so very
  • awful colloquial: very, extremely
  • immensely hugely; extremely; vastly
  • very much to a very great extent

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {很},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E5%BE%88},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}