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申 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 中田中 (LWL), four-corner 5000₆, composition ⿻日丨 or ⿻囗十)

• 伸 坤 神 紳 (绅) 𣁱 审

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 758, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21726
• Dae Jaweon: page 1168, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2526, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7533

Historical forms of the character 申
Shang		Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) — a bolt of lightning. Original character of 電 (OC *l'iːns, “lightning”) and 神 (OC *hlin, “god; deity; spirit”).

“to extend; to state; to request; to announce; again”

From 引 (OC *linʔ, *lins, “to pull; to draw”) + devoicing causative or iterative (Schuessler, 2007).

9th earthly branch

From sense "to extend", denoting the moon's "extending" phase, i.e. waxing half-moon with a concave edge (Smith, 2010).

For its association with the monkey, compare Proto-Tai *liːŋᴬ (“monkey”), Proto-Hmong *ʔlinᴬ (“monkey”), and Proto-Mien *ʔbiŋᴬ (“monkey”).

“Shanghai”

From 春申江 (Chūnshēnjiāng), an alternative name of 黃浦江／黄浦江 (Huángpǔjiāng), the largest river in Shanghai.

申

1. ^† Original form of 電／电 (diàn, “lightning”).
2. to extend; to stretch
3. to state; to explain

   三令五申  ―  sānlìngwǔshēn  ―  to repeat and reaffirm the commands multiple times

4. to request; to report
5. to announce; to express
6. ^† again; repeatedly

   申命記／申命记  ―  Shēnmìngjì  ―  Book of Deuteronomy (lit. book of reaffirmation of laws)

7. ninth of twelve earthly branches (十二支)
   1. monkey of the Chinese zodiac
   2. 3 to 5 p.m.
   3. seventh month of the Chinese calendar
8. (～國) Shen (vassal state during the Zhou dynasty)
9. Alternative name for 上海 (Shànghǎi, “Shanghai”).
10. ^† Alternative form of 神 (“deity”)
11. a surname

• (Chinese earthly branches) 地支 (dìzhī); 子, 丑 (chǒu), 寅 (yín), 卯 (mǎo), 辰 (chén), 巳 (sì), 午 (wǔ), 未 (wèi), 申 (shēn), 酉 (yǒu), 戌, 亥 (hài) ^{(Category: zh:Chinese earthly branches)}

• “申”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. (humble) to speak
2. the monkey, one of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac

• Go-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kun: もうす (mōsu, 申す, Jōyō)、もうし (mōshi, 申し)、さる (saru, 申)、かさねる (kasaneru, 申ねる)

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Monkey (zodiac)

Wikipedia

From 猿 (saru, “monkey”).

• (Tokyo) さる (Atamadaka – )^[1][2][3]
• IPA^(key):

• Homophones: 猿, 去る, 避る, 然る

申(さる) • (Saru) 

1. the Monkey, the ninth of the twelve Earthly Branches

   Hypernyms: 十二支, 地支

   Coordinate terms: 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥

From Middle Chinese 申 (syin).

申(しん) • (Shin) 

1. the Monkey, the ninth of the twelve Earthly Branches

   Hypernyms: 十二支, 地支

   Coordinate terms: 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

申

Wikisource

申 (eumhun 펼칠 신 (pyeolchil sin))

1. hanja form^? of 신 (“to extend; to stretch”)

申: Hán Nôm readings: thân

1. chữ Hán form of Thân (“ninth of the twelve earthly branches”).

   Hypernyms: 地支, 十二支

   Coordinate terms: 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥