訊

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See also: 讯
訊 U+8A0A, 訊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A0A
← 訉
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 訋 →

Translingual

Han character

訊 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜口弓十 (YRNJ), four-corner 07610, composition ⿰訁卂)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1147, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35224
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1614, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3942, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+8A0A

Chinese

trad. 訊
simp. 讯
alternative forms 訙
䛜
𧨼
𠱖
𡀚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 訊
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (卂) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
汛 *sreːls, *siːns, *sins
軐 *siːns
卂 *sins, *tods
訊 *sins
訙 *sins
迅 *sins, *sɯns
阠 *sins, *srin, *hljins
扟 *srin
籸 *srin
蝨 *sriɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sins) : semantic 言 + phonetic 卂 (OC *sins, *tods).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 訊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 息晉切
Baxter sinH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/siɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/sinH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/sjenH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/sinH/
Li
Rong 		/siĕnH/
Wang
Li 		/sĭĕnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/si̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xìn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		san3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 訊
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xùn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ sinH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*i-s/
English ask

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 訊
Reading # 1/1
No. 14138
Phonetic
component 		卂
Rime
group 		眞
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		信
Old
Chinese 		/*sins/

Definitions

訊

  1. to inquire; to ask
  2. to question; to interrogate
  3. to call to account; to admonish
  4. to state; to report
  5. message; information; news
    訊息／讯息  ―  xùnxī  ―  message
    通訊／通讯  ―  tōngxùn  ―  news dispatch
  6. (obsolete, poetry) coda; conclusion
    Synonyms: 亂／乱 (luàn), 誶／谇 (suì)
  7. (obsolete) captured prisoners

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

訊

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. ask; question

Readings

  • On (unclassified): じん (jin)、しん (shin)、しゅん (shun)
  • Kun: きく (kiku, 訊く)、とう (tou, 訊う)、たずねる (tazuneru, 訊ねる)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

訊: Hán Nôm readings: tấn

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