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U+8EAB, 身
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8EAB

[U+8EAA]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8EAC]
U+2F9D, ⾝
KANGXI RADICAL BODY

[U+2F9C]
Kangxi Radicals
[U+2F9E]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
7 strokes
Stroke order

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 158, +0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹難竹 (HXH), four-corner 27400)

  1. Kangxi radical #158, .

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1237, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38034
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1709, character 36
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3807, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8EAB

Chinese[edit]

trad.
simp. #
2nd round simp. ⿻㇒力
alternative forms 𡰬
𨊘

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) : from a pictograph of a pregnant woman.

Etymology 1[edit]

STEDT relates it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sja-n ~ *sin (flesh; animal; body), but recent Old Chinese reconstructions would not support this etymology.

Because is used as a phonetic for (OC *niŋ) in excavated texts, Baxter and Sagart (2012, 2014) reconstruct the initial as nasal. This would allow for a comparison to Tibetan སྙིང (snying, heart), Japhug sni (heart) (Baxter and Sagart, 2012; Zhang, Jacques and Lai, 2019), which are from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/k-n(j)i-k/ŋ (heart; mind; brain).

Pronunciation[edit]


Note:
  • sin - literary;
  • sian - vernacular (as classifier).
Note:
  • sing1 - Chaozhou, Shantou;
  • sêng1 - Jieyang.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʂən⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʂən⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ʂən²¹/
/sən²¹/
Jinan /ʂẽ²¹³/
Qingdao /ʃə̃²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʂən²⁴/
Xi'an /ʂẽ²¹/
Xining /ʂə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʂəŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ʂə̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /ʂɤŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /sən⁵⁵/
Chengdu /sən⁵⁵/
Guiyang /sen⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʂə̃⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʂən³¹/
Hefei /ʂən²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /səŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /ʂəŋ¹³/
Hohhot /sə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /səŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /sən⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /sen³³/
Wenzhou /saŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /ɕiʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /ɕian¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ʂən³³/
Xiangtan /sən³³/
Gan Nanchang /sɨn⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /sən⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /ʃen²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sɐn⁵³/
Nanning /sɐn⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /sɐn⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /sin⁵⁵/
/sian⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /siŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /seiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /siŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /tin²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (26)
Final () (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter syin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɕiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɕin/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɕjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɕin/
Li
Rong
/ɕiĕn/
Wang
Li
/ɕĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɕi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shēn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
san1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shēn
Middle
Chinese
‹ syin ›
Old
Chinese
/*n̥i[ŋ]/
English body; self

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 11247
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰjin/
Notes

Definitions[edit]

  1. (anatomy) body
  2. (figurative) body; main part
  3. pregnancy
  4. oneself
  5. in person; personally
  6. I; me
  7. life; one's (entire) life
  8. social status
  9. moral character
  10. Classifier for suits of clothes.
  11. (literary or Southern Min, Puxian Min) Classifier for statues, dolls, puppets.
  12. (Southern Min) Classifier for silkworms.
  13. (Cantonese, idiomatic) Classifier for beatings.

Synonyms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Vietnamese: thân ()

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]


Definitions[edit]

  1. Only used in 身毒 (Juāndú).

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. body
    Synonym:
  2. identity

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *muy. Cognate with (mi, seed, fruit, offspring).[1]

Standalone form of mu below. See also the etymology of (kami, kamu).

Compare Korean (mom, body).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

() (mi

  1. a body; (by extension):
    1. the main part of something
      1. the blade of a sword (as opposed to the handle)
      2. meat, flesh (as opposed to skin and bone)
      3. wood (as opposed to the bark)
    2. oneself
    3. one's position, one's social standing, one's circumstances
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese. Bound form of mi above, only found in compounds.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

() (mu

  1. (only in compounds) a body
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Kanji in this term
むくろ
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese. Compound of (mu, body, bound form of standalone mi) +‎ くろ (kuro). The derivation of the kuro element is uncertain, but it might be an alteration or ancient form of (kara, trunk, main part).[1]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(むくろ) (mukuro

  1. a living body
    • 720, 日本書紀 (Nihon Shoki, “Chronicles of Japan”), Volume 7, in the section on 景行天皇 (Keikō-tennō, Emperor Keikō):
      長大
      (ひと)となり、むくろ(たか)(おお)きにして
      hitotonari, mukuro takaku ōki ni shite
      His personality and body were lofty and great
  2. a dead body, a corpse
    • 14th century, 太平記 (Taiheiki):
      御首(おんくび)敷皮(しきかは)(うえ)()ちて(むくろ)(なほ)()せるが(ごと)
      onkubi wa shikikawa no ue ni ochite mukuro wa naozaseru ga gotoshi
      The head fell onto the hide rug, and the corpse looked as if it were sitting straight...
  3. a rotten tree trunk
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 4[edit]

Kanji in this term
しん
Grade: 3
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese (syin, body, self).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(しん) (shin

  1. a body
Usage notes[edit]

Seldom used on its own. In isolation, the reading mi is much more common.

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Chinese (MC syin). Recorded as Middle Korean (sin) (Yale: sin) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja[edit]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun (mom sin))

  1. Hanja form? of (body).

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: thân

  1. chữ Hán form of thân (torso).