See also: 终身

Chinese edit

end; finish
 
body; torso; person
body; torso; person; life; status; pregnancy; (a measure word used for clothes) suit
trad. (終身)
simp. (终身)

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (23) (26)
Final () (2) (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter tsyuwng syin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕɨuŋ/ /ɕiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕiuŋ/ /ɕin/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕiuŋ/ /ɕjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cuwŋ/ /ɕin/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiuŋ/ /ɕiĕn/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭuŋ/ /ɕĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯uŋ/ /ɕi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhōng shēn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zung1 san1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhōng shēn
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyuwng › ‹ syin ›
Old
Chinese
/*tuŋ/ /*n̥i[ŋ]/
English end 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 1/1
No. 2428 11247
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tjuŋ/ /*qʰjin/
Notes

Noun edit

終身

  1. all one's life; one's lifetime
    終身教育终身教育  ―  zhōngshēn jiàoyù  ―  lifelong education
    終身職位终身职位  ―  zhōngshēn zhíwèi  ―  tenure

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (終身):

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
しゅう
Grade: 3
しん
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(しゅう)(しん) (shūshin

  1. a lifetime, a whole life
    終身(しゅうしん)雇用(こよう)廃止(はいし)
    shūshin koyō no haishi
    abolition of lifetime employment

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN