# 紳

| 紳 | U+7D33, &#32051; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D33 |
| ← 紲 [U+7D32] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 紴 → [U+7D34] |

## Translingual
### Han character

紳 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女火中田中 (VFLWL), four-corner 2590$_6$, composition ⿰糹申)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 920, character 2
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27348
* Dae Jaweon: page 1352, character 4
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3380, character 3
* Unihan data for U+7D33

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 電 | *l'iːns |
| 胂 | *l̥ʰin, *hlin |
| 申 | *hlin |
| 伸 | *hlin |
| 呻 | *hlin |
| 紳 | *hlin |
| 眒 | *hlin, *hlins |
| 柛 | *hlin |
| 訷 | *hlin |
| 抻 | *hlins |
| 神 | *hlin |
| 朄 | *lins |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shēn (shen$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕㄣ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): san$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sin
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shēn
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄣ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shen
*** Wade–Giles: shên$^1$
*** Yale: shēn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shen
*** Palladius: шэнь (šɛnʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂən⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: san$^1$
*** Yale: sān
*** Cantonese Pinyin: san$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sen$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɐn⁵⁵/
* 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
Rime :
| Character | 紳 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 書 (26) |
| Final (韻) | 眞 (43) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 失人切 |
| Baxter | syin |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɕiɪn/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɕin/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɕjen/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɕin/ |
| Li Rong | /ɕiĕn/ |
| Wang Li | /ɕĭĕn/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ɕi̯ĕn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | shēn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | san$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l̥]i[n]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*hlin/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 紳 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shēn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ syin › |
| Old Chinese | /*[l̥]i[n]/ |
| English | sash around the waist |
| 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 | 紳 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11238 |
| Phonetic component | 申 |
| Rime group | 眞 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 申 |
| Old Chinese | /*hlin/ |

### Definitions

紳
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) girdle worn by officials in ancient China
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to tie; to bind
* gentleman

### Compounds

* 仕紳 / 仕绅
* 劣紳 / 劣绅 (lièshēn)
* 土紳 / 土绅
* 土豪劣紳 / 土豪劣绅 (tǔháo lièshēn)
* 士紳 / 士绅 (shìshēn)
* 官紳 / 官绅 (guānshēn)
* 搢紳 / 搢绅 (jìnshēn)
* 搢紳錄 / 搢绅录
* 書紳 / 书绅
* 簪纓縉紳 / 簪缨缙绅
* 紳商 / 绅商
* 紳士 / 绅士 (shēnshì)
* 紳士協定 / 绅士协定
* 紳耆 / 绅耆
* 紳董 / 绅董
* 紳衿 / 绅衿
* 縉紳 / 缙绅 (jìnshēn)
* 薦紳 / 荐绅
* 豪紳 / 豪绅 (háoshēn)
* 鄉紳 / 乡绅 (xiāngshēn)

### References

* “紳”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* sire
* good belt
* gentleman

#### Readings

* Go-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
* Kan-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
* Kun: おおおび (ōobi, 紳)

## Korean
### Hanja

紳 • (sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune–Reischauer sin, Yale sin)
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## Vietnamese
### Chữ Hán

紳: Hán Nôm readings: thân, thang
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