shēn
girdle
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 申 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 紳
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
gentleman | ||
member of gentry | ||
squire | ||
local bosses, shady gentry (idiom); dominant local mafia |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[l̥]i[n] | syin | shēn | sash around the waist |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.8328% of movies
2115th most common character in movies
2554th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7D33 |
Shuowen | “紳,大帶也。从糸,申聲。” |
Sources
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