哂

哂 U+54C2, 哂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54C2 ← 品 [U+54C1] CJK Unified Ideographs 哃 → [U+54C3]

Translingual

Han character

哂 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口一金田 (RMCW), four-corner 6106₀, composition ⿰口西)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 188, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3583
• Dae Jaweon: page 408, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 613, character 5
• Unihan data for U+54C2

Chinese

simp. and trad.		哂

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (西) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
粞	*sɯːl, *sɯːl
洒	*sraːls, *sɯːlʔ
西	*sɯːl
卤	*sɯːl
卥	*sɯːl
栖	*sɯːl, *sɯːls
茜	*sʰɯːns
哂	*hjɯnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hjɯnʔ): semantic 口 + phonetic 西 (OC *sɯːl)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shěn (shen³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): can²
• Eastern Min (BUC): sīng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sing³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sín

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shěn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shěn
    • Wade–Giles: shên³
    • Yale: shěn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheen
    • Palladius: шэнь (šɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: can²
    • Yale: chán
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsan²
    • Guangdong Romanization: cen²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐn³⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sīng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siŋ³³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sing³
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sîng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiŋ⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sing³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiŋ³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sín
    • Tâi-lô: sín
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sien
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sin⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sin⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sin⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sin⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sin⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: syinX

Rime
Character	哂
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	式忍切
Baxter	syinX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiɪnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕinX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕjenX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕinX/
Li Rong	/ɕiĕnX/
Wang Li	/ɕĭĕnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɕi̯ĕnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shěn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	san2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*n̥ərʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hjɯnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	哂
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shěn
Middle Chinese	‹ syinX ›
Old Chinese	/*n̥ərʔ/
English	smile
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	哂
Reading #	1/1
No.	13244
Phonetic component	西
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	矤
Old Chinese	/*hjɯnʔ/

Definitions

哂

1. to smile
2. to laugh at, sneer at

   • 夫子哂之。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Fūzǐ shěn zhī. [Pinyin]

     The Master sneered at him.

Compounds

• 不值一哂
• 付之一哂
• 哂笑 (shěnxiào)
• 哂納 / 哂纳 (shěnnà)
• 陰哂 / 阴哂

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 哂 – see 嗮. (This character is a variant form of 嗮).

References

• “哂”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “哂”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 208.

Japanese

Kanji

哂

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しん (shin)
• Kan-on: しん (shin)
• Kun: わらう (warau, 哂う)

Korean

Hanja

哂 • (sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune–Reischauer sin)

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Vietnamese

Han character

哂: Hán Nôm readings: thẩn

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