See also:
U+5BE9, 審
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BE9

[U+5BE8]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5BEA]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 40, +12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 十竹木田 (JHDW), four-corner 30609, composition )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 291, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7316
  • Dae Jaweon: page 577, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 954, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5BE9

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
   

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : (roof) + (to distinguish) + . There are two theories about the component . One is that it was originally (“mouth”), then corrupted into (“say”), then further into . The other one is that its a remnant from a variant form ⿱宷思 with omitted. The Shuowen Jiezi describes as the seal script variant of .

Pronunciation

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  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʂən²¹⁴/
Harbin /ʂən²¹³/
Tianjin /ʂən¹³/
/sən¹³/
Jinan /ʂẽ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /ʃə̃⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ʂən⁵³/
Xi'an /ʂẽ⁵³/
Xining /ʂə̃⁵³/
Yinchuan /ʂəŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /ʂə̃n⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /ʂɤŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /sən⁴²/
Chengdu /sən⁵³/
Guiyang /sen⁴²/
Kunming /ʂə̃⁵³/
Nanjing /ʂən²¹²/
Hefei /ʂən²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /səŋ⁵³/
Pingyao /ʂəŋ⁵³/
Hohhot /sə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /səŋ³⁵/
Suzhou /sən⁵¹/
Hangzhou /sen⁵³/
Wenzhou /saŋ³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ɕiʌ̃³⁵/
Tunxi /ɕian³¹/
Xiang Changsha /ʂən⁴¹/
Xiangtan /ʂən⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /sɨn²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /səm³¹/
Taoyuan /ʃem³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sɐm³⁵/
Nanning /sɐm³⁵/
Hong Kong /sɐm³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /sim⁵³/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /siŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /seiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /sim⁵³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /tim²¹³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (26)
Final () (139)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter syimX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɕiɪmX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɕimX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɕjemX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɕimX/
Li
Rong
/ɕiəmX/
Wang
Li
/ɕĭĕmX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ɕi̯əmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shěn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
sam2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shěn
Middle
Chinese
‹ syimX ›
Old
Chinese
/*s.tʰ[ə]mʔ/
English examine, discriminate

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 11261
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hljɯmʔ/
Notes

Definitions

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  1. to examine; to investigate
  2. (law) to try; to judge
  3. (literary, or in compounds) meticulous
  4. (literary, or in compounds) indeed

Synonyms

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  • (to examine):
  • (to try):
  • (meticulous):

Antonyms

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  • (antonym(s) of meticulous):

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Jōyō kanji)

  1. examine

Readings

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  • Go-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
  • Kun: つまびらか (tsumabiraka, 審らか)

Korean

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Hanja

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(sim) (hangeul , revised sim, McCune–Reischauer sim)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: thẩm, săm, sẩm, thắm, thẳm, thấm, thủm, thẫm

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