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Translingual
Han character
莘 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜廿十 (TYTJ), four-corner 44401, composition ⿱艹辛)
- long
- numerous
- a marsh plant whose root is used for medicine
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1034, character 13
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31056
- Dae Jaweon: page 1493, character 17
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3224, character 1
- Unihan data for U+8398
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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親
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*sʰin, *sʰins
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寴
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*sʰin, *sʰins
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儭
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*sʰins, *sʰrins
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瀙
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*sʰins, *ʔsrin, *sʰrins
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辛
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*siŋ
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新
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*siŋ
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薪
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*siŋ
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襯
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*sʰrins
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櫬
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*sʰrins
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嚫
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*t͡sʰrinh
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莘
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*sriŋ
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騂
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*seŋ
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垶
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*seŋ
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觪
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*seŋ
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Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-r(i/u)ŋ (“long; to elongate”); cognate with Burmese ရှည် (hrany, “idem”) (Luce 1981, STEDT?).
Pronunciation
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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莘
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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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‹ srin ›
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Old Chinese
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/*sri/
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English
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long, drawn-out
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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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莘
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Reading #
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1/1
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No.
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13819
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Phonetic component
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辛
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Rime group
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眞
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Rime subdivision
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2
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Corresponding MC rime
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莘
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Old Chinese
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/*sriŋ/
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Definitions
莘
- long
- numerous
- a surname
- (~縣) Shen County, a county in Shandong.
Compounds
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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莘
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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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‹ srin ›
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Old Chinese
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/*sri/
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English
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long, drawn-out
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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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莘
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Reading #
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1/1
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No.
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13819
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Phonetic component
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辛
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Rime group
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眞
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Rime subdivision
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2
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Corresponding MC rime
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莘
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Old Chinese
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/*sriŋ/
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Definitions
莘
- a type of marsh plant whose root is used for medicine
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
莘
(Hyōgai kanji)
- long
- numerous
- marsh plant whose root is used for medicine
Readings
Korean
Hanja
莘 • (sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune–Reischauer sin, Yale sin)
- long
- numerous
- a marsh plant whose root is used for medicine