扟

扟 U+625F, 扟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-625F ← 扞 [U+625E] CJK Unified Ideographs 扠 → [U+6260]

Translingual

Han character

扟 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手弓十 (QNJ), composition ⿰扌卂)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 418, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11803
• Dae Jaweon: page 764, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1832, character 1
• Unihan data for U+625F

Chinese

simp. and trad.		扟

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 扟
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

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	扟
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

  (Zhengzhang): /*srin/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	扟
Reading #	1/1
No.	14143
Phonetic component	卂
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	莘
Old Chinese	/*srin/

Definitions

扟

1. pour from, take from, choose from
2. decrease, subtract, diminish
3. to peel, peel off, to shell, to strip