# 哂

| 哂 | U+54C2, &#21698; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54C2 |
| ← 品 [U+54C1] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 哃 → [U+54C3] |

## Translingual
### Han character

哂 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口一金田 (RMCW), four-corner 6106$_0$, composition ⿰口西)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 188, character 14
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3583
* Dae Jaweon: page 408, character 2
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 613, character 5
* Unihan data for U+54C2

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 粞 | *sɯːl, *sɯːl |
| 洒 | *sraːls, *sɯːlʔ |
| 西 | *sɯːl |
| 卤 | *sɯːl |
| 卥 | *sɯːl |
| 栖 | *sɯːl, *sɯːls |
| 茜 | *sʰɯːns |
| 哂 | *hjɯnʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hjɯnʔ): semantic 口 + phonetic 西 (OC *sɯːl)

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shěn (shen$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕㄣˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): can$^2$
* Eastern Min (BUC): sīng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sing$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sín
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shěn
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄣˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shěn
*** Wade–Giles: shên$^3$
*** Yale: shěn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheen
*** Palladius: шэнь (šɛnʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂən²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: can$^2$
*** Yale: chán
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tsan$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: cen$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰɐn³⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: sīng
*** Sinological IPA : /siŋ³³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sing$^3$
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sîng
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬiŋ⁴⁵³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sing$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬiŋ³³²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sín
*** Tâi-lô: sín
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sien
*** IPA (Xiamen): /sin⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sin⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /sin⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /sin⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /sin⁴¹/
* Middle Chinese: syinX
Rime :
| Character | 哂 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 書 (26) |
| Final (韻) | 眞 (43) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 式忍切 |
| Baxter | syinX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɕiɪn$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɕin$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɕjen$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɕin$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ɕiĕn$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /ɕĭĕn$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ɕi̯ĕn$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | shěn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | san$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*n̥ərʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*hjɯnʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 哂 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shěn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ syin$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*n̥ərʔ/ |
| English | smile |
| 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 | 哂 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13244 |
| Phonetic component | 西 |
| Rime group | 文 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 矤 |
| Old Chinese | /*hjɯnʔ/ |

#### Definitions

哂
* to smile
* to laugh at, sneer at
    From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Fūzǐ shěn zhī. [Pinyin]
    The Master sneered at him.

#### Compounds

* 不值一哂
* 付之一哂
* 哂笑 (shěnxiào)
* 哂納 / 哂纳 (shěnnà)
* 陰哂 / 阴哂

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 哂 – see 嗮. (This character is a variant form of 嗮).

### References

* “哂”, 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–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “哂”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 208.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: しん (shin)
* Kan-on: しん (shin)
* Kun: わらう (warau, 哂う)

## Korean
### Hanja

哂 • (sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune–Reischauer sin)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

哂: Hán Nôm readings: thẩn
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