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Translingual
Han character
薪 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+13, 17 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 16 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿卜木中 (TYDL), four-corner 44921, composition ⿱艹新)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1062, character 9
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32149
- Dae Jaweon: page 1526, character 13
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3306, character 3
- Unihan data for U+85AA
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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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *siŋ) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 新 (OC *siŋ).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ ~ sik (“wood”). Cognate with Tibetan ཤིང (shing, “tree, wood”) and Burmese သစ် (sac, “log, timber, wood”). Compare its phonetic component 新 (OC *siŋ, “new”) and Burmese သစ် (sac, “new”).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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薪
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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xīn
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ sin ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*i/
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| English
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firewood
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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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薪
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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13812
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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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新
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Old
Chinese
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/*siŋ/
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Definitions
薪
- firewood; fuelwood; brushwood
- 釜底抽薪 ― fǔdǐchōuxīn ― to extract the firewood from under the cauldron; to take drastic measures to deal with a situation
- salary; wage
- 月薪 ― yuèxīn ― monthly salary
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
薪
(common “Jōyō” kanji)
- firewood; kindling
Readings
Etymology 1
| For pronunciation and definitions of 薪 – see the following entry.
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| (This term, 薪, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 薪 – see the following entry.
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| (This term, 薪, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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Korean
Hanja
薪 • (sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune–Reischauer sin, Yale sin)
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Vietnamese
Han character
薪: Hán Việt readings: tân
薪: Nôm readings: tân
- chữ Hán form of tân (“firewood, grass, a salary or bonus”).
References