娠

娠	U+5A20, 娠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A20

Translingual

Han character

娠 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女一一女 (VMMV), four-corner 4143₂, composition ⿰女辰)

Derived characters

𦵢

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 263, character 1
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6322
Dae Jaweon: page 529, character 31
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1050, character 9
Unihan data for U+5A20

Chinese

trad.		娠
simp. ^#		娠
alternative forms		震

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
辴	tʰɯl, tʰɯnʔ, *tʰɯn
屒	tɯnʔ, djɯn
振	tjɯn, tjɯns
侲	tjɯn, tjɯn
桭	tjɯn, djɯn
唇	tjɯn, ɦljun
帪	*tjɯn
賑	tjɯnʔ, tjɯns
裖	*tjɯnʔ
敐	tjɯnʔ, djɯn
震	*tjɯn
娠	tjɯns, hljɯn
蜃	djɯns, djɯnʔ, *djins
辰	*djɯn
晨	djɯn, ɦljɯn
宸	*djɯn
鷐	*djɯn
麎	*djɯn
祳	*djɯnʔ
脤	*djɯnʔ
鋠	*djɯnʔ
磭	ŋrɯnʔ, ŋ̊ʰjaɡ, *ŋaɡ
陙	*djun
脣	*ɦljun
漘	*ɦljun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tjɯns, *hljɯn) : semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 辰 (OC *djɯn)

Etymology

From 震 (OC *tjɯn, “to shake; to rouse”) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shēn (shen¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹ / zan³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sin

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 / zan³
  - Yale: sān / jan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: san¹ / dzan³
  - Guangdong Romanization: sen¹ / zen³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐn⁵⁵/, /t͡sɐn³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sin
  - Tâi-lô: sin
  - Phofsit Daibuun: syn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /sin⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sin³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sin⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /sin⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sin⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: syin, tsyinH

Rime
Character	娠	娠
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	書 (26)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	失人切	章刃切
Baxter	syin	tsyinH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiɪn/	/t͡ɕiɪn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕin/	/t͡ɕin^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕjen/	/t͡ɕjen^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕin/	/cin^H/
Li Rong	/ɕiĕn/	/t͡ɕiĕn^H/
Wang Li	/ɕĭĕn/	/t͡ɕĭĕn^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɕi̯ĕn/	/t͡ɕi̯ĕn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shēn	zhèn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	san¹	zan³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*s-tər/, /*tər-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*tjɯns/, /*hljɯn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	娠	娠
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shēn	shēn
Middle Chinese	‹ syin ›	‹ tsyin^H ›
Old Chinese	/*s-tər/	/*tər-s/
English	pregnant	pregnant
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	娠	娠
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1369	1385
Phonetic component	辰	辰
Rime group	文	文
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	震	申
Old Chinese	/*tjɯns/	/*hljɯn/
Notes		本讀章母此或訓讀身

Definitions

娠

to be pregnant

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

娠

(Jōyō kanji)

with child

Readings

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 娠 (MC syin). Recorded as Middle Korean 신 (sin) (Yale: sin) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

娠

Wikisource

娠 (eumhun 아이 밸 신 (ai bael sin))

hanja form^? of 신 (“with child”)

Compounds

임신 (妊娠, imsin)
임신부 (妊娠婦, imsinbu)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese

Han character

娠: Hán Nôm readings: thần

This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

Nom Foundation