See also:
U+814E, 腎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-814E

[U+814D]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+814F]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 130, +8 in Chinese, 肉+9 in Japanese, 12 strokes in Chinese, 13 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 尸水月 (SEB), four-corner 77227, composition )

Descendants

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 987, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29621
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1439, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2086, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+814E

Chinese

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trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *ɡjinʔ) : phonetic (OC *kʰaːn, *kʰriːn, *ɡiːn, *kʰins) + semantic (meat; flesh) – a body part, the kidneys.

Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-k(j)un (kidney). Cognate with Burmese ကုန်း (kun:, back).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • san6 - literary (“kidney; testicle”);
  • san5, san5-2 - vernacular (“gizzard”).
Note:
  • sīn - literary;
  • siān/siǎn - vernacular.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (25)
Final () (43)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter dzyinX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʑiɪnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ʑinX/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʑjenX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ʑinX/
Li
Rong
/ʑiĕnX/
Wang
Li
/ʑĭĕnX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʑi̯ĕnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shèn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
san6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shèn
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzyinX ›
Old
Chinese
/*Cə.[ɡ]i[n]ʔ/
English kidney

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. 1344
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡjinʔ/

Definitions

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  1. (anatomy) kidney
  2. (traditional Chinese medicine) testicle
  3. (Cantonese) gizzard
    [Cantonese]  ―  gai1 san5 [Jyutping]  ―  chicken gizzard
  4. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of (xián).
    [Cantonese]  ―  san5 ze2 zi1 sek6 [Jyutping]  ―  kidney stone

Synonyms

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Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Jōyō kanji)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Readings

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Compounds

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Etymology 1

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/murato1/ → /murato/.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(むらと) (murato

  1. (obsolete) kidney

Etymology 2

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From earlier /murato/. Voicing suggests that it was originally a compound of mura and to.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(むらど) (murado

  1. (obsolete) kidney

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Korean

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Etymology

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

Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 콩팥 (kongpat sin))

  1. hanja form? of (kidney)

Compounds

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References

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  • 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

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: thận

  1. chữ Hán form of thận (kidney).