This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

To extend your confidence 申 to another person 亻; 申 also provides the pronunciation

  • to extend, to stretch out, to open up; to trust shēn
    • man, person; people rén
      • man, person; people rén
    • to report; to extend; to explain; to declare shēn
      • to speak; to say yuē
      • number one; line shù

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