心神

Chinese

		heart; mind	God; unusual; mysterious God; unusual; mysterious; soul; spirit; divine essence; lively; spiritual being
simp. and trad. (心神)		心	神
anagram		神心

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xīnshén

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣ ㄕㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sam¹ san⁴
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): sîm-sṳ̀n

  (Hailu, HRS): sim^ˋ shin

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): seng¹ sing²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sim-sîn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xīnshén
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣ ㄕㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sinshén
    • Wade–Giles: hsin¹-shên²
    • Yale: syīn-shén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinshern
    • Palladius: синьшэнь (sinʹšɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵ ʂən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sam¹ san⁴
    • Yale: sām sàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sam¹ san⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sem¹ sen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐm⁵⁵ sɐn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sîm-sṳ̀n
    • Hakka Romanization System: xim^ˊ siin^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xim¹ sin²
    • Sinological IPA: /sim²⁴ sɨn¹¹/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: sim^ˋ shin
    • Sinological IPA: /sim⁵³ ʃin⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: seng¹ sing² [Phonetic: seng⁵ ning²]
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: seng-síng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɛŋ⁵³³⁻¹¹ ^(ɬ-)niŋ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: seng¹ sing² [Phonetic: seng⁵ ning²]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɛŋ⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ ^(ɬ-)niŋ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sim-sîn
    • Tâi-lô: sim-sîn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: simsiin
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sim⁴⁴⁻²² sin²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sim³³ sin²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sim⁴⁴⁻²² sin¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sim⁴⁴⁻³³ sin²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sim⁴⁴⁻³³ sin²³/

Noun

心神

1. mind; state of mind
2. attention; focus

Synonyms

• (state of mind):

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• 心境 (xīnjìng)
• 心思 (xīnsī)
• 心情 (xīnqíng)
• 心意 (xīnyì)
• 心曲 (xīnqū) (literary)
• 心緒 / 心绪 (xīnxù)
• 思 (literary, or in compounds)
• 思緒 / 思绪 (sīxù)
• 情懷 / 情怀 (qínghuái)
• 情緒 / 情绪 (qíngxù)
• 懷 / 怀 (huái) (figurative)
• 腸 / 肠 (cháng) (figurative)

• (attention):

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• 注意 (zhùyì)
• 注意力 (zhùyìlì)
• 眼球 (yǎnqiú) (figurative)
• 視線 / 视线 (shìxiàn)

Derived terms

• 心神不定 (xīnshénbùdìng)
• 心神不寧 / 心神不宁 (xīnshénbùníng)
• 心神恍惚 (xīnshénhuǎnghū)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (心神):

• → Vietnamese: tâm thần (心神)

References

• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “心”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 203.

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
心	神

Noun

心神

1. chữ Hán form of tâm thần (“mind”).