Example sentences
jīn今tiān天hěn很rè热。
It's hot today.
tā他bù不shì是hěn很gāo高。
He's not very tall.
The story behind the character
很
彳 (walking) plus 艮. It originally meant to disobey, to not listen, and was later borrowed to mean "very." So the 很 in "很好" started out meaning "disobedient."