縉紳

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Chinese

red silk member of gentry
trad. (縉紳)
simp. (缙绅)
alternative forms 搢紳搢绅

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (13) (26)
Final () (43) (43)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter tsinH syin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡siɪnH/ /ɕiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sinH/ /ɕin/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sjenH/ /ɕjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sinH/ /ɕin/
Li
Rong
/t͡siĕnH/ /ɕiĕn/
Wang
Li
/t͡sĭĕnH/ /ɕĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡si̯ĕnH/ /ɕi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jìn shēn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zan3 san1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shēn
Middle
Chinese
‹ syin ›
Old
Chinese
/*i/
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. * 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. 6771 11238
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsins/ /*hlin/

Noun

縉紳

  1. (literary, metonymically) literati; elite; aristocrat; gentry (social stratum characterised by fine education and high status in classical Chinese society)