伸

音読おんよみ: シン

訓読くんよみ:びる・のばす

画数かくすう: 7

部首ぶしゅ: にんべん

Meaning

Stretch / Extend / Grow

  • しんちょう — height; growth
  • 伸縮しんしゅく — expansion and contraction
  • 追伸ついしん — P.S. in a letter
  • 屈伸くっしん — bending and stretching
  • ばす — to reach out (hand)

The left side is にんべん — the person radical. On the right is 申, originally showing an extended body or figure. Together they express “a person stretching” or “extending.”

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