伸

Translingual

Han character

伸 (radical 9 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人中田中 (OLWL), four-corner 2520₆, composition ⿰亻申)

1. extend, stretch out, open up
2. trust

References

• KangXi: page 97, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 481
• Dae Jaweon: page 205, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 133, character 2
• Unihan data for U+4F38

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Cantonese

Hanzi

伸 (Yale san1)

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Japanese

Kanji

伸 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: しん (shin)
• Kun: のびる (伸びる, nobiru), のばす (伸ばす, nobasu)

Compounds

• 伸筋
• 伸縮
• 伸張
• 伸長, 伸暢
• 伸展
• 伸度

Idioms

• 伸るか反るか
  のるかそるか
  noru ka soru ka
  sink or swim; come what may

Related terms

• 伸す
• 伸べ広げる

Proper noun

伸 (hiragana しん, romaji Shin)

1. A male given name

伸 (hiragana のぶる, romaji Noburu)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

伸 (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune-Reischauer sin)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

伸 (pinyin shēn (shen1), Wade-Giles shen¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

伸 (thân)

References

• Nom Foundation