縉紳

Chinese

		red silk	member of gentry
trad. (縉紳)		縉	紳
simp. (缙绅)		缙	绅
alternative forms		搢紳／搢绅

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jìnshēn

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄕㄣ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jìnshēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄕㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jìnshen
    • Wade–Giles: chin⁴-shên¹
    • Yale: jìn-shēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jinnshen
    • Palladius: цзиньшэнь (czinʹšɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵¹ ʂən⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsinH syin

Rime
Character	縉	紳
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	即刃切	失人切
Baxter	tsinH	syin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siɪnH/	/ɕiɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sinH/	/ɕin/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sjenH/	/ɕjen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sinH/	/ɕin/
Li Rong	/t͡siĕnH/	/ɕiĕn/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭĕnH/	/ɕĭĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si̯ĕnH/	/ɕi̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jìn	shēn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zan3	san1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsins  hlin/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	紳
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shēn
Middle Chinese	‹ syin ›
Old Chinese	/*[l̥]i[n]/
English	sash around the waist
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	縉	紳
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	6771	11238
Phonetic component	晉	申
Rime group	眞	眞
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	晉	申
Old Chinese	/*ʔsins/	/*hlin/

Noun

縉紳

1. (literary, metonymically) literati; elite; aristocrat; gentry (social stratum characterised by fine education and high status in classical Chinese society)

Related terms

• 紳士／绅士 (shēnshì)
• 士紳／士绅 (shìshēn)
• 士大夫 (shìdàfū)