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薪

薪

Translingual

Han character

薪 (radical 140 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜木中 (TYDL), four-corner 44921, composition ⿱艹新)

References

  • KangXi: page 1062, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32149
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1526, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3306, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+85AA

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 薪

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (辛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
親 *sʰin, *sʰins
寴 *sʰin, *sʰins
儭 *sʰins, *sʰrins
瀙 *sʰins, *ʔsrin, *sʰrins
辛 *siŋ
新 *siŋ
薪 *siŋ
襯 *sʰrins
櫬 *sʰrins
嚫 *tshrinh
莘 *sriŋ
騂 *seŋ
垶 *seŋ
觪 *seŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *siŋ) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 新 ‎(OC *siŋ).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ ~ sik ‎(“wood”). Cognate with Tibetan ཤིང ‎(shing, “tree, wood”) and Burmese သစ် ‎(sac, “log, timber, wood”). Compare its phonetic component 新 (OC *siŋ, “new”) and Burmese သစ် ‎(sac, “new”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 薪
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 息鄰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /siɪn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sin/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sin/
Li
Rong		 /siĕn/
Wang
Li		 /sĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xīn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 薪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xīn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sin ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]i[n]/
English firewood

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 薪
Reading # 1/1
No. 13812
Phonetic
component		 辛
Rime
group		 眞
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 新
Old
Chinese		 /*siŋ/

Definitions

薪

  1. firewood; fuelwood; brushwood
    釜底抽薪  ―  fǔdǐchōuxīn  ―  to extract the firewood from under the cauldron; to take drastic measures to deal with a situation [idiom]
  2. salary; wage
    月薪  ―  yuèxīn  ―  monthly salary

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

薪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

薪 • ‎(sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune-Reischauer sin, Yale sin)

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Vietnamese

Han character

薪 (tân, huy)

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