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shen

nounnounattested in dialogue

A deity or a spirit, in Chinese folk religion.

noun

  1. 1

    A deity or a spirit, in Chinese folk religion.

noun

  1. 1

    In Chinese mythology, a shapeshifting dragon or shellfish-type sea monster believed to create mirages.

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shens
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).