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兟

兟

兟 U+515F, 兟
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-515F
← 兞
[U+515E] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 兠 →
[U+5160]

Translingual

Han character

兟 (radical 10 儿+10, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹山竹土山 (HUHGU) or X竹山竹土 (XHUHG), four-corner 24211, composition ⿰先先)

  1. to advance

References

  • KangXi: page 125, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1391
  • Dae Jaweon: page 266, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 274, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+515F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 兟

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 兟
Small seal script

s06219
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (先) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
洗 *sɯːlʔ, *sɯːnʔ
先 *sɯːn, *sɯːns
銑 *sɯːnʔ
跣 *sɯːnʔ
毨 *sɯːnʔ
姺 *sɯːnʔ, *srin
筅 *sɯːnʔ
冼 *sɯːnʔ
箲 *sɯːnʔ
駪 *srin
兟 *srin
詵 *srin
侁 *srin

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 兟
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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʃɪn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʃɪn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʃien/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʂin/
Li
Rong		 /ʃiĕn/
Wang
Li		 /ʃĭen/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʂi̯æn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shēn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 兟
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shēn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ srin ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s<r>ər/
English to advance (Shuōwén)

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 兟
Reading # 1/1
No. 13469
Phonetic
component		 先
Rime
group		 眞
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 莘
Old
Chinese		 /*srin/

Japanese

Kanji

兟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

兟 • ‎(sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune-Reischauer sin)

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