呻吟 shēnyín▶ gemir

Stroke order

呻吟 is written in 15 strokes across 2 characters.

• 呻 — 8 strokes
• 吟 — 7 strokes

Related words

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呻吟 is pronounced shēnyín and means “gemir”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 呻吟 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.