審

審 U+5BE9, 審 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BE9 ← 寨 [U+5BE8] CJK Unified Ideographs 寪 → [U+5BEA]

See also: 审

Translingual

Han character

審 (radical 40 宀+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 十竹木田 (JHDW), four-corner 3060₉, composition ⿱宀番)

1. to examine, to investigate
2. to judge
3. trial

References

• KangXi: page 291, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7316
• Dae Jaweon: page 577, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 954, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5BE9

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Chinese

trad.		審
simp.		审

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (宷) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
宷	*hljɯmʔ
審	*hljɯmʔ
瀋	*l̥ʰjɯmʔ
嬸	*hljɯmʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shěn (shen³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sam²
• Min Nan (POJ): sím
• Wu (Wiktionary): sen (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shěn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄣˇ
    • Wade-Giles: shên³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheen
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sam²
    • Yale: sám
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sam²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sem²
    • IPA ^(key): /sɐm³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sím
    • Tâi-lô: sím
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siem
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɕim⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕim⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕim⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕim⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕim⁴¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: sen (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /səɲ³⁴/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 審
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʂən²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/ʂən²¹³/
	Tianjin	/ʂən¹³/ /sən¹³/
	Jinan	/ʂẽ⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/ʃə̃⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/ʂən⁵³/
	Xi'an	/ʂẽ⁵³/
	Xining	/ʂə̃⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/ʂəŋ⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/ʂə̃n⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/ʂɤŋ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/sən⁴²/
	Chengdu	/sən⁵³/
	Guiyang	/sen⁴²/
	Kunming	/ʂə̃⁵³/
	Nanjing	/ʂən²¹²/
	Hefei	/ʂən²⁴/
Jin	Taiyuan	/səŋ⁵³/
	Pingyao	/ʂəŋ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/sə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/səŋ³⁵/
	Suzhou	/sən⁵¹/
	Hangzhou	/sen⁵³/
	Wenzhou	/saŋ³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/ɕiʌ̃³⁵/
	Tunxi	/ɕian³¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/ʂən⁴¹/
	Xiangtan	/ʂən⁴²/
Gan	Nanchang	/sɨn²¹³/
Hakka	Meixian	/səm³¹/
	Taoyuan	/ʃem³¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/sɐm³⁵/
	Nanning	/sɐm³⁵/
	Hong Kong	/sɐm³⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/sim⁵³/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/siŋ³²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/seiŋ²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/sim⁵³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/tim²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɕiɪm^X/▼

Rime
Character	審
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	侵 (139)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	式任切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiɪmX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕimX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕjemX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕimX/
Li Rong	/ɕiəmX/
Wang Li	/ɕĭĕmX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯əmX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shěn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*s.tʰ[ə]mʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljɯmʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	審
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shěn
Middle Chinese	‹ syimX ›
Old Chinese	/*s.tʰ[ə]mʔ/
English	examine, discriminate
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	審
Reading #	1/1
No.	11261
Phonetic component	宷
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*hljɯmʔ/
Notes	荏由任校改，說文同宷

Definitions

審

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Compounds

• 審判／审判 (shěnpàn)

• 審定／审定 (shěndìng)

• 審察／审察 (shěnchá)

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Japanese

Kanji

審

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. examine

Readings

• Goon: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kan’on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kun: つまびらか (tsumabiraka, 審らか)

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Korean

Hanja

審 • (sim) (hangeul 심, revised sim, McCune-Reischauer sim)

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Vietnamese

Han character

審 (thẩm, săm, sẩm, thắm, thẳm, thấm, thủm, thẫm)

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