心神

Chinese

		heart; mind	God; unusual; mysterious God; unusual; mysterious; soul; spirit; divine essence; lively; spiritual being
simp. and trad. (心神)		心	神
anagram		神心

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xīnshén

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣㄕㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sam¹ san⁴
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): sîm-sṳ̀n

(Hailu, HRS): sim^ˋ shin
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): seng¹ sing²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sim-sîn

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xīnshén
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣㄕㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sinshén
  - Wade–Giles: hsin¹-shên²
  - Yale: syīn-shén
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinshern
  - Palladius: синьшэнь (sinʹšɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵ ʂən³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sam¹ san⁴
  - Yale: sām sàhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sam¹ san⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: sem¹ sen⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐm⁵⁵ sɐn²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sîm-sṳ̀n
  - Hakka Romanization System: xim^ˊ siin^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: xim¹ sin²
  - Sinological IPA: /sim²⁴ sɨn¹¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: sim^ˋ shin
  - Sinological IPA: /sim⁵³ ʃin⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: seng¹ sing² [Phonetic: seng⁵ ning²]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: seng-síng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɛŋ⁵³³⁻¹¹ ^(ɬ-)niŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: seng¹ sing² [Phonetic: seng⁵ ning²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɛŋ⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ ^(ɬ-)niŋ²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sim-sîn
  - Tâi-lô: sim-sîn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: simsiin
  - IPA (Xiamen): /sim⁴⁴⁻²² sin²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sim³³ sin²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sim⁴⁴⁻²² sin¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /sim⁴⁴⁻³³ sin²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sim⁴⁴⁻³³ sin²³/

Noun

心神

mind; state of mind
attention; focus

Synonyms

(state of mind):

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心境 (xīnjìng)
心思 (xīnsī)
心情 (xīnqíng)
心意 (xīnyì)
心曲 (xīnqū) (literary)
心緒 / 心绪 (xīnxù)
思 (literary, or in compounds)
思緒 / 思绪 (sīxù)
情懷 / 情怀 (qínghuái)
情緒 / 情绪 (qíngxù)
懷 / 怀 (huái) (figurative)
腸 / 肠 (cháng) (figurative)

(attention):

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注意 (zhùyì)
注意力 (zhùyìlì)
眼球 (yǎnqiú) (figurative)
視線 / 视线 (shìxiàn)

Derived terms

心神不定 (xīnshénbùdìng)
心神不寧 / 心神不宁 (xīnshénbùníng)
心神恍惚 (xīnshénhuǎnghū)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (心神):

→ Vietnamese: tâm thần (心神)

References

李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “心”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 203.

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
心	神

Noun

心神

chữ Hán form of tâm thần (“mind”)