莘

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莘 U+8398, 莘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8398
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 莙 →

Translingual

Han character

莘 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜廿十 (TYTJ), four-corner 44401, composition ⿱艹辛)

  1. long
  2. numerous
  3. 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

trad. 莘
simp. # 莘
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Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (辛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
親 *sʰin, *sʰins
寴 *sʰin, *sʰins
儭 *sʰins, *sʰrins
瀙 *sʰins, *ʔsrin, *sʰrins
辛 *siŋ
新 *siŋ
薪 *siŋ
襯 *sʰrins
櫬 *sʰrins
嚫 *t͡sʰrinh
莘 *sriŋ
騂 *seŋ
垶 *seŋ
觪 *seŋ

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-riŋ (“long; to elongate”); cognate with Burmese ရှည် (hrany, “idem”) (Luce, 1981).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 莘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 生 (21)
Final (韻) 臻 (46)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 所臻切
Baxter srin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʃɪn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʃɪn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʃien/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʂin/
Li
Rong 		/ʃiĕn/
Wang
Li 		/ʃĭen/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʂi̯æn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shēn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		san1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 莘
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shēn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ srin ›
Old
Chinese 		/*sri/
English long, drawn-out

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 莘
Reading # 1/1
No. 13819
Phonetic
component 		辛
Rime
group 		眞
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		莘
Old
Chinese 		/*sriŋ/

Definitions

莘

  1. long
  2. numerous
  3. a surname
  4. (～縣) Shen County, a county in Shandong.

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 莘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 生 (21)
Final (韻) 臻 (46)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 所臻切
Baxter srin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʃɪn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʃɪn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʃien/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʂin/
Li
Rong 		/ʃiĕn/
Wang
Li 		/ʃĭen/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʂi̯æn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shēn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		san1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 莘
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shēn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ srin ›
Old
Chinese 		/*sri/
English long, drawn-out

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 莘
Reading # 1/1
No. 13819
Phonetic
component 		辛
Rime
group 		眞
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		莘
Old
Chinese 		/*sriŋ/

Definitions

莘

  1. a type of marsh plant whose root is used for medicine

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

莘

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. long
  2. numerous
  3. marsh plant whose root is used for medicine

Readings

  • On (unclassified): しん (shin)

Korean

Hanja

莘 • (sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune–Reischauer sin, Yale sin)

  1. long
  2. numerous
  3. a marsh plant whose root is used for medicine
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