薪

薪 U+85AA, 薪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85AA
← 薩
[U+85A9] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 薫 →
[U+85AB]

Translingual

Han character

薪 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+13, 17 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 16 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿卜木中 (TYDL), four-corner 44921, composition ⿱艹新)

Derived characters

  • 𬅋

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1062, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32149
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1526, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3306, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+85AA

Chinese

trad. 薪
simp. # 薪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 薪
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (辛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
親 *sʰin, *sʰins
寴 *sʰin, *sʰins
儭 *sʰins, *sʰrins
瀙 *sʰins, *ʔsrin, *sʰrins
辛 *siŋ
新 *siŋ
薪 *siŋ
襯 *sʰrins
櫬 *sʰrins
嚫 *t͡sʰrinh
莘 *sriŋ
騂 *seŋ
垶 *seŋ
觪 *seŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *siŋ): semantic 艹 + phonetic 新 (OC *siŋ).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ ~ sik (“wood”). Cognate with Tibetan ཤིང (shing, “tree, wood”) and Burmese သစ် (sac, “log, timber, wood”). Compare its phonetic component 新 (OC *siŋ, “new”) and Burmese သစ် (sac, “new”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 薪
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 息鄰切
Baxter sin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/siɪn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/sin/
Shao
Rongfen 		/sjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/sin/
Li
Rong 		/siĕn/
Wang
Li 		/sĭĕn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/si̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xīn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		san1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 薪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xīn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ sin ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[s]i[n]/
English firewood

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 薪
Reading # 1/1
No. 13812
Phonetic
component 		辛
Rime
group 		眞
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		新
Old
Chinese 		/*siŋ/

Definitions

薪

  1. firewood; fuelwood; brushwood
    釜底抽薪  ―  fǔdǐchōuxīn  ―  to extract the firewood from under the cauldron; to take drastic measures to deal with a situation [idiom]
  2. salary; wage
    月薪  ―  yuèxīn  ―  monthly salary

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

薪

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. firewood; kindling

Readings

  • On (unclassified): しん (shin, Jōyō)
  • Kun: たきぎ (takigi, 薪, Jōyō)、まき (maki, 薪)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
薪
たきぎ
Grade: S
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 薪 – see the following entry.
【たきぎ】
[noun] kindling; firewood
Alternative spelling
焚き木
(This term, 薪, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
薪
まき
Grade: S
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 薪 – see the following entry.
【まき】
[noun] firewood
(This term, 薪, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

薪 • (sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune–Reischauer sin, Yale sin)

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Vietnamese

Han character

薪: Hán Việt readings: tân[1][2][3][4]
薪: Nôm readings: tân[1]

  1. chữ Hán form of tân (“firewood, grass, a salary or bonus”)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Trần (2004).
  2. ^ Trần (1999).
  3. ^ Nguyễn (1974).
  4. ^ Thiều Chửu (1942).
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