Shèn is the

pinyin Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese for ...

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of the

Chinese surname Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia. Written Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the ...

and / . Shen is the 340th surname in the

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-era ''

Hundred Family Surnames The ''Hundred Family Surnames'' (), commonly known as ''Bai Jia Xing'', also translated as ''Hundreds of Chinese Surnames'', is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames. An unknown author compiled the book during the Song dyn ...

''.

Romanisation

慎 is romanised as Thận in

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. / can also be read as Chèn.

Distribution

Shen was unlisted among the 100 most common surnames in

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in 2007 or among the 100 most common surnames on

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

in 2005. Similarly, although Chinese make up the largest part of America's

Asian and Pacific Islander Asian/Pacific American (APA) or Asian/Pacific Islander (API) or Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) or Asian American and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) is a term sometimes used in the United States when including both Asian ...

population, none of the romanizations of 慎 appeared among the 1000 most common surnames during the AD 2000 US census.

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.
Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000
". 27 Sept 2011. Accessed 29 Mar 2012.

Origin

Shen is said to have originated in

Yingshang County Yingshang County () is a county in the northwest of Anhui province, China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Fuyang, Anhui, Fuyang. The Huai River, which frequently floods, forms part of the county's southern border. Yin ...

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References

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