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Chinese
Pronunciation
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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紳
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Reading #
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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shēn
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Middle Chinese
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‹ syin ›
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Old Chinese
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/*i/
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English
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sash around the waist
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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.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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縉
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紳
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Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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No.
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6771
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11238
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Phonetic component
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晉
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申
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Rime group
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眞
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眞
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Rime subdivision
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1
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1
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Corresponding MC rime
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晉
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申
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Old Chinese
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/*ʔsins/
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/*hlin/
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Noun
縉紳
- (literary, metonymically) literati; elite; aristocrat; gentry (social stratum characterised by fine education and high status in classical Chinese society)