訊

See also: 讯

訊 U+8A0A, 訊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A0A ← 訉 [U+8A09] CJK Unified Ideographs 訋 → [U+8A0B]

Translingual

Han character

訊 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜口弓十 (YRNJ), four-corner 0761₀, composition ⿰訁卂)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1147, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35224
• Dae Jaweon: page 1614, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3942, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8A0A

Chinese

trad.		訊
simp.		讯
alternative forms		訙 䛜 𧨼 𠱖 𡀚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 訊
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sins) : semantic 言 + phonetic 卂 (OC *sins, *tods).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xùn (xun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): sin

  (Meixian, Guangdong): xin³

• Eastern Min (BUC): séng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sing⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sìn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sing³

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵shin

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syùn
    • Wade–Giles: hsün⁴
    • Yale: syùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiunn
    • Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕyn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seon³
    • Yale: seun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sin
    • Hakka Romanization System: xin
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xin⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /sin⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: xin³
    • Sinological IPA: /sin³¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: séng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛiŋ²¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sing⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiŋ⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sìn
    • Tâi-lô: sìn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sixn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sin²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sin⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sin²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sin¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sin²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sing³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sìng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siŋ²¹³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵shin
    • MiniDict: shin^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²xin
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕin³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: sinH

Rime
Character	訊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息晉切
Baxter	sinH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪnH/
Pan Wuyun	/sinH/
Shao Rongfen	/sjenH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sinH/
Li Rong	/siĕnH/
Wang Li	/sĭĕnH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯ĕnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xìn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	san3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]i[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sins/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	訊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xùn
Middle Chinese	‹ sinH ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]i[n]-s/
English	ask
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	訊
Reading #	1/1
No.	14138
Phonetic component	卂
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	信
Old Chinese	/*sins/

Definitions

訊

1. to inquire; to ask
2. to question; to interrogate
3. to call to account; to admonish
4. to state; to report
5. message; information; news

   訊息／讯息  ―  xùnxī  ―  message

   通訊／通讯  ―  tōngxùn  ―  news dispatch

6. (obsolete, poetry) coda; conclusion

   Synonyms: 亂 / 乱 (luàn), 誶 / 谇 (suì)

7. (obsolete) captured prisoners

Compounds

• 偵訊 / 侦讯 (zhēnxùn)
• 停訊 / 停讯
• 偵訊筆錄 / 侦讯笔录
• 傳訊 / 传讯 (chuánxùn)
• 光纖通訊 / 光纤通讯
• 凶訊
• 刑訊 / 刑讯 (xíngxùn)
• 吐芳訊 / 吐芳讯
• 問訊 / 问讯 (wènxùn)
• 喜訊 / 喜讯 (xǐxùn)
• 執訊 / 执讯 (zhíxùn)
• 太空通訊 / 太空通讯
• 審訊 / 审讯 (shěnxùn)
• 庭訊 / 庭讯
• 惡訊 / 恶讯
• 應訊 / 应讯 (yìngxùn)
• 戰地通訊 / 战地通讯
• 打問訊 / 打问讯
• 拷訊 / 拷讯
• 提訊 / 提讯 (tíxùn)
• 數據通訊 / 数据通讯
• 會訊 / 会讯
• 查訊 / 查讯
• 死訊 / 死讯 (sǐxùn)
• 海底通訊 / 海底通讯
• 短訊 / 短讯 (duǎnxùn)
• 視訊 / 视讯 (shìxùn)
• 視訊器 / 视讯器
• 視訊會議 / 视讯会议
• 視訊系統 / 视讯系统
• 簡訊 / 简讯 (jiǎnxùn)
• 聆訊 / 聆讯 (língxùn)
• 聞訊 / 闻讯
• 芳訊 / 芳讯
• 蘭訊 / 兰讯
• 訊供 / 讯供
• 訊口 / 讯口
• 訊問 / 讯问 (xùnwèn)
• 訊塘 / 讯塘 (Xùntáng)
• 訊息 / 讯息 (xùnxī)
• 訊斷 / 讯断
• 訊棍 / 讯棍
• 訊號 / 讯号 (xùnhào)
• 訊辦 / 讯办
• 訊鞫 / 讯鞫
• 警訊 / 警讯 (jǐngxùn)
• 資料通訊 / 资料通讯
• 資訊 / 资讯 (zīxùn)
• 通訊 / 通讯 (tōngxùn)
• 通訊卡 / 通讯卡
• 通訊員 / 通讯员 (tōngxùnyuán)
• 通訊器 / 通讯器
• 通訊社 / 通讯社 (tōngxùnshè)
• 通訊網 / 通讯网 (tōngxùnwǎng)
• 通訊自由 / 通讯自由
• 通訊處 / 通讯处
• 通訊衛星 / 通讯卫星 (tōngxùn wèixīng)
• 通訊錄 / 通讯录 (tōngxùnlù)
• 雜訊 / 杂讯 (záxùn)
• 電傳視訊 / 电传视讯
• 電訊 / 电讯 (diànxùn)
• 電訊會議 / 电讯会议
• 鞫訊 / 鞫讯
• 音訊 / 音讯 (yīnxùn)

 

References

• “訊”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “讯”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 272.
• zi.tools

Japanese

Kanji

訊

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. ask; question

Readings

• On (unclassified): じん (jin)、しん (shin)、しゅん (shun)
• Kun: きく (kiku, 訊く)、とう (tou, 訊う)、たずねる (tazuneru, 訊ねる)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

訊: Hán Nôm readings: tấn

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