申请 (shēnqǐng) = to apply, 申明 (shēnmíng) = to state/declare. 沪 and 申 are both abbreviations for Shanghai.
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申shēn
ninth earthly branch; to state
Pictograph of a forked lightning bolt streaking down through clouds — the central vertical is the main flash, side strokes its branching arms. Indexed under Kangxi #102 田 (tián) by tradition for its boxy silhouette, though no visible 田-element survives. Borrowed early as the ninth earthly branch and as a verb 'to state, declare.'
Filed under radical 田 (tián, #102) by convention. 田 is not a separate component in 申, so no strokes are highlighted.
