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U+8398, 莘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8398

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

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

  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.
simp. #
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Glyph origin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-r(i/u)ŋ (long; to elongate); cognate with Burmese ရှည် (hrany, idem) (Luce 1981, STEDT?).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (21)
Final () (46)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
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
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 13819
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sriŋ/

Definitions

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

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (21)
Final () (46)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
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
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 13819
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sriŋ/

Definitions

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

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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

Readings

  • On (unclassified): しん (shin)

Korean

Hanja

(sin) (hangeul , revised sin, McCune–Reischauer sin, Yale sin)

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