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審

審

See also: 审

Translingual

Han character

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

  1. to examine, to investigate
  2. to judge
  3. trial

References

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

Chinese

trad. 審
simp. 审

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (宷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
宷 *hljɯmʔ
審 *hljɯmʔ
瀋 *l̥ʰjɯmʔ
嬸 *hljɯmʔ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 審
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 (Min Nan) /sim⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /siŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /seiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /sim⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tim²¹³/
Rime
Character 審
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 侵 (139)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 式任切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕiɪmX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕimX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕjemX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕimX/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiəmX/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭĕmX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯əmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shěn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 審
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 審
Reading # 1/1
No. 11261
Phonetic
component		 宷
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*hljɯmʔ/
Notes 荏由任校改，說文同宷

Definitions

審

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

審

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. examine

Readings

Korean

Hanja

審 • ‎(sim) (hangeul 심, revised sim, McCune-Reischauer sim)

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Vietnamese

Han character

審 (thẩm, săm, sẩm, thắm, thẳm, thấm, thủm, thẫm)

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