安身

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Chinese

content; calm; still
content; calm; still; quiet; to pacify; peace; how
 
body; torso; person
body; torso; person; life; status; pregnancy; (a measure word used for clothes) suit
 
trad. (安身)
simp. #(安身)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (34) (26)
Final () (61) (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter 'an syin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɑn/ /ɕiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɑn/ /ɕin/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔɑn/ /ɕjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔan/ /ɕin/
Li
Rong
/ʔɑn/ /ɕiĕn/
Wang
Li
/ɑn/ /ɕĭĕn/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʔɑn/ /ɕi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ān shēn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
on1 san1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
ān ān ān shēn
Middle
Chinese
‹ 'an › ‹ 'an › ‹ 'an › ‹ syin ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁa/ /*ˁa/ /*ˁa/ /*n̥i/
English peace(ful) how 安息 Ānxī (Iranian country in the western regions, W. Hàn; from Aršaka = Arsaces, founder of the Arsacid dynasty) body; self

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 11 11247
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qaːn/ /*qʰjin/
Notes

Verb

安⫽身 (verb-object) (intransitive)

  1. (literary) to settle oneself down; to take shelter

Synonyms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
あん
Grade: 3
しん
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Noun

(あん)(しん) (anshin

  1. ease in one's body, relaxation
  2. establishing oneself in the world, making a career for oneself