莘

莘 U+8398, 莘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8398 ← 莗 [U+8397] CJK Unified Ideographs 莙 → [U+8399]

Translingual

Han character

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

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

Derived characters

• 𣻿, 𣘘, 䅸, 𧐞, 𧤱, 𨫽, 𩇡, 𩺵, 𦸯, 𰲄

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.		莘
simp. #		莘

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (辛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
親	*sʰin, *sʰins
寴	*sʰin, *sʰins
儭	*sʰins, *sʰrins
瀙	*sʰins, *ʔsrin, *sʰrins
辛	*siŋ
新	*siŋ
薪	*siŋ
襯	*sʰrins
櫬	*sʰrins
嚫	*t͡sʰrinh
莘	*sriŋ
騂	*seŋ
垶	*seŋ
觪	*seŋ

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shēn (shen¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shen
    • Wade–Giles: shên¹
    • Yale: shēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shen
    • Palladius: шэнь (šɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: san¹
    • Yale: sān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: san¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: srin

Rime
Character	莘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	臻 (46)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	所臻切
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

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sri[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sriŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	莘
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shēn
Middle Chinese	‹ srin ›
Old Chinese	/*sri[n]/
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. *[t] 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	莘
Reading #	1/1
No.	13819
Phonetic component	辛
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	莘
Old Chinese	/*sriŋ/

Definitions

莘

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

Compounds

• 莘莘 (shēnshēn)

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xīn (xin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sin
    • Wade–Giles: hsin¹
    • Yale: syīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shin
    • Palladius: синь (sinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: srin

Rime
Character	莘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	臻 (46)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	所臻切
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

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sri[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sriŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	莘
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shēn
Middle Chinese	‹ srin ›
Old Chinese	/*sri[n]/
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. *[t] 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	莘
Reading #	1/1
No.	13819
Phonetic component	辛
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	莘
Old Chinese	/*sriŋ/

Definitions

莘

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

Compounds

• 莘莊 / 莘庄

 

Japanese

Kanji

莘

(Hyōgai kanji)

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

Readings

• On (unclassified): しん (shin)

Korean

Hanja

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

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