紳

See also: 绅

紳 U+7D33, 紳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D33 ← 紲 [U+7D32] CJK Unified Ideographs 紴 → [U+7D34]

Translingual

Han character

紳 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女火中田中 (VFLWL), four-corner 2590₆, composition ⿰糹申)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 920, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27348
• Dae Jaweon: page 1352, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3380, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7D33

Chinese

trad.		紳
simp.		绅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (申) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
電	*l'iːns
胂	*l̥ʰin, *hlin
申	*hlin
伸	*hlin
呻	*hlin
紳	*hlin
眒	*hlin, *hlins
柛	*hlin
訷	*hlin
抻	*hlins
神	*hlin
朄	*lins

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shēn (shen¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sin

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shen
    • Wade–Giles: shên¹
    • Yale: shēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shen
    • Palladius: шэнь (šɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: san¹
    • Yale: sān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: san¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sin
    • Tâi-lô: sin
    • Phofsit Daibuun: syn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sin³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sin⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: syin

Rime
Character	紳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	失人切
Baxter	syin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕin/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕjen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕin/
Li Rong	/ɕiĕn/
Wang Li	/ɕĭĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shēn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	san1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l̥]i[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hlin/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	紳
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shēn
Middle Chinese	‹ syin ›
Old Chinese	/*[l̥]i[n]/
English	sash around the waist
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	紳
Reading #	1/1
No.	11238
Phonetic component	申
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	申
Old Chinese	/*hlin/

Definitions

紳

1. ^† girdle worn by officials in ancient China
2. ^† to tie; to bind
3. gentleman

Compounds

• 仕紳／仕绅
• 劣紳／劣绅 (lièshēn)
• 土紳／土绅
• 土豪劣紳／土豪劣绅 (tǔháo lièshēn)
• 士紳／士绅 (shìshēn)
• 官紳／官绅 (guānshēn)
• 搢紳／搢绅 (jìnshēn)
• 搢紳錄／搢绅录
• 書紳／书绅
• 簪纓縉紳／簪缨缙绅
• 紳商／绅商
• 紳士／绅士 (shēnshì)
• 紳士協定／绅士协定
• 紳耆／绅耆
• 紳董／绅董
• 紳衿／绅衿
• 縉紳／缙绅 (jìnshēn)
• 薦紳／荐绅
• 豪紳／豪绅 (háoshēn)
• 鄉紳／乡绅

 

References

• “紳”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

紳

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. sire
2. good belt
3. gentleman

Readings

• Go-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kun: おおおび (ōobi, 紳)

Korean

Hanja

紳 • (sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune–Reischauer sin, Yale sin)

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Vietnamese

Chữ Hán

紳: Hán Nôm readings: thân, thang

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