短信

Chinese

		lack; short	letter; true; to believe letter; true; to believe; sign; evidence
simp. and trad. (短信)		短	信

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duǎnxìn

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄢˇ ㄒㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dyun² seon³

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tér-sìn / té-sìn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): do² sing³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duǎnxìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄢˇ ㄒㄧㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duǎnsìn
    • Wade–Giles: tuan³-hsin⁴
    • Yale: dwǎn-syìn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: doanshinn
    • Palladius: дуаньсинь (duanʹsinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕin⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dyun² seon³
    • Yale: dyún seun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dyn² soen³
    • Guangdong Romanization: dün² sên³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tyːn³⁵ sɵn³³/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 短信 短訊／短讯

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tér-sìn
    • Tâi-lô: tér-sìn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tə⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ sin⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: té-sìn
    • Tâi-lô: té-sìn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: defsixn
    • IPA (Jinjiang): /te⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ sin⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /te⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sin²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: do² sing³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tó sìng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /to⁵²⁻³⁵ siŋ²¹³/

Noun

短信 (countable)

1. text message; SMS (Classifier: 條／条 m)

   發短信／发短信  ―  fā duǎnxìn  ―  to send a text message

   我昨天收到了三十多條垃圾短信。 [MSC, trad.]
   我昨天收到了三十多条垃圾短信。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ zuótiān shōudào le sānshí duō tiáo lājī duǎnxìn. [Pinyin]

   I received over 30 spam text messages yesterday.

2. short letter (Classifier: 封 m)

Synonyms

• (text message):

• 短信息 (duǎnxìnxī)
• 短消息
• 短訊／短讯 (duǎnxùn) (chiefly Hong Kong)
• 短訊息／短讯息
• 簡訊／简讯 (jiǎnxùn) (Taiwan, Singapore)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 短信息 (“text message; SMS”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		短訊息, 短信息 Mainland China, 短信 Mainland China, 短消息 Mainland China, 簡訊 Taiwan, Singapore
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	簡訊
	Singapore	簡訊
Cantonese	Hong Kong	短訊

Descendants

• → Zhuang: donjsin

Japanese

Kanji in this term
短	信
たん Grade: 3	しん Grade: 4
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tã̠ɰ̃ɕĩɴ]

Noun

短(たん)信(しん) • (tanshin) 

1. a brief note (report, letter)

   決算(けっさん)短信(たんしん)

   kessan tanshin

   brief report on settlement of accounts