Pinyin Syllable

Chinese characters pronounced sen

Learn common Chinese characters pronounced sen, including 森 sēn. Compare tones, meanings, traditional forms, words, and example sentences.

How to Pronounce This Syllable

For sen, start with the flat s and let it flow into en, holding the tone over the joined syllable.

Keep the tongue flat and the sound clean.

Keep the ending light and nasal.

Only one common character is read sen (森 sēn) — focus on locking in its tone.

sen turns up here with 1 different tone; a change of tone usually means a different character, so the groups below are split by tone.

Taking the 1st tone here: 森 (1 in total). Lock this tone in your ear before the meaning.

Seeing sen inside whole words makes it clear which character is meant — here are common ones.

1 common character in this group.