Chinese word
审慎
shěn shèn
prudent; cautious
Traditional: 審慎
Meaning
Definitions are in English.- prudent; cautious
Characters in this word
Common words: 审 · 慎
Words
Words with the same first character
审查shěn cháto examine; to investigate; to censor out; censorship审判shěn pàna trial; to try sb审议shěn yì(of a committee etc) to deliberate; to consider; to discuss审核shěn héto audit; to investigate thoroughly审批shěn pīto examine and approve; to endorse审理shěn lǐto hear (a case)审计shěn jìto audit; to examine finances审讯shěn xùninquest; trial; interrogation; to try; to interrogate
Examples
Example sentences
Sentences from the HSK character sentence bank. Tap a word or character to open its dictionary entry.
Zài zhèngjù bù wánbèi de qíngkuàng xià, shěnshèn juécè bìng bù děngyú jùjué cǎiqǔ xíngdòng.
Under conditions of incomplete evidence, prudent decision-making does not mean refusing to act.
Zhēnzhèng zhídé jǐngtì de, bìngfēi bù quèdìngxìng běnshēn, ér shì rénmen zài jíyú xiāochú bù quèdìngxìng shí, fǎn'ér yāsuō le shěnshèn pànduàn de kōngjiān.
What truly warrants caution is not uncertainty itself, but the way people may narrow the space for careful judgment in their haste to eliminate it.