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慎

慎

See also: 愼 and 惧

Translingual

Shinjitai 慎
Simplified 慎
Traditional 慎

Alternative forms

Note the different forms, corresponds to different forms of 真.

Han character

慎 (radical 61 心+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 心十月金 (PJBC), four-corner 94081, composition ⿰忄真)

  1. act with care, be cautious

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 398, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11024
  • Dae Jaweon: page 735, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2336, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+614E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 慎

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (眞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
寘 *tjels
䡩 *kʰriːn
黰 *ʔriːn, *ʔljinʔ
顛 *tiːn, *tʰiːns
滇 *tiːn, *tʰiːns, *diːn
齻 *tiːn
槙 *tiːn, *tjinʔ
瘨 *tiːn
傎 *tiːn
蹎 *tiːn
厧 *tiːn
巔 *tiːn
癲 *tiːn
瑱 *tʰiːns, *tins
填 *diːn, *diːns, *tin, *tins
窴 *diːn, *diːns
闐 *diːn, *diːns
磌 *diːn, *tjin
鷏 *diːn
嗔 *diːn, *tʰjin
搷 *diːn
鎮 *tin, *tins
縝 *tʰin, *ʔljinʔ, *tʰjin
眞 *ʔljin
禛 *tjin
稹 *ʔljin, *ʔljinʔ
蒖 *tjin
鬒 *ʔljinʔ
瞋 *tʰjin
謓 *tʰjin
慎 *djins

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djins) : semantic 忄 ‎(“heart”) + phonetic 真 – a behavior trait (heart), care, caution. Note that 真 means “truth, genuine, sincerity”, hence connotations of “acting sincerely, with care”.

Pronunciation

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 慎
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shèn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyinH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]i[n]-s/
English careful

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 慎
Reading # 1/1
No. 17082
Phonetic
component		 眞
Rime
group		 眞
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 愼
Old
Chinese		 /*djins/

Definitions

慎

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Compounds

  • 不慎
  • 勤慎
  • 失慎
  • 審慎／审慎
  • 小心謹慎／小心谨慎
  • 恪慎
  • 慎刑
  • 慎始
  • 慎始敬終／慎始敬终
  • 慎子
  • 慎密
  • 慎小謹微／慎小谨微
  • 慎微
  • 慎思
  • 慎思明辨
  • 慎獨／慎独
  • 慎終如始／慎终如始
  • 慎終若始／慎终若始
  • 慎終追遠／慎终追远
  • 慎行
  • 慎言
  • 慎謀能斷／慎谋能断
  • 慎重 (shènzhòng)
  • 慎重其事
  • 慎防
  • 慎防杜漸／慎防杜渐
  • 慎默
  • 敬小慎微
  • 敬慎
  • 日慎一日
  • 明德慎罰／明德慎罚
  • 明慎
  • 明賞慎罰／明赏慎罚
  • 杜微慎防
  • 淑慎
  • 清慎
  • 肅慎／肃慎 (Sùshèn)
  • 謹小慎微／谨小慎微
  • 謹慎／谨慎 (jǐnshèn)
  • 謹言慎行／谨言慎行
  • 謹謹慎慎／谨谨慎慎

Japanese

Proper noun

慎 ‎(hiragana しん, romaji Shin)

  1. A male given name

Kanji

慎

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. humility
  2. be careful
  3. discrete
  4. prudent

Readings

Vietnamese

Han character

慎 (thận)

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