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Chinese[edit]
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letter; true; to believe letter; true; to believe; sign; evidence
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to make; to cause; to enable to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; messenger
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simp. and trad. (信使)
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信
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使
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Pronunciation[edit]
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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信
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使
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Reading #
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1/1
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2/2
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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xìn
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shǐ
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Middle Chinese
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‹ sinH ›
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‹ sriH ›
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Old Chinese
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/*s-ni[ŋ]-s/
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/*s-rəʔ-s/
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English
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truthful
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envoy
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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.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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信
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使
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Reading #
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1/1
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2/2
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No.
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13849
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11491
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Phonetic component
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信
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史
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Rime group
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眞
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之
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Rime subdivision
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1
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0
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Corresponding MC rime
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信
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𩢲
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Old Chinese
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/*hljins/
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/*srɯs/
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Notes
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金文或從人從口, 本指操信符傳言之信使, 故表可信,或從言身聲
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信使
- courier; messenger
- (biochemistry) messenger (molecule)
Synonyms[edit]
- (courier): (literary, or in compounds) 信 (xìn)
Derived terms[edit]