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

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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/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 短信

1. 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.

Synonyms

• (Hong Kong) 短訊／短讯 (duǎnxùn)
• (Taiwan, Singapore) 簡訊／简讯 (jiǎnxùn)

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

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

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