"書信" meaning in Chinese

See 書信 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ʂu⁵⁵ ɕin⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /fou²⁴ ɕiŋ⁴⁴/ [Dungan, Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /syː⁵⁵ sɵn³³/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /su²⁴⁻¹¹ sin⁵⁵/ [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sinological-IPA, Sixian], /su⁴⁴⁻³⁵ sin⁵³/ [Hakka, Meixian, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sy⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ⁽ˢ⁻⁾lɛiŋ²¹³/ [Fuzhou, Sinological-IPA], /su⁴⁴⁻³³ sin¹¹/ [Hokkien, Taipei], /su⁴⁴⁻³³ sin²¹/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung], /su⁴⁴⁻²² sin²¹/ [Hokkien, Xiamen], /t͡sɯ³³ sin⁴¹/ [Hokkien, Quanzhou], /si⁴⁴⁻²² sin²¹/ [Hokkien, Zhangzhou], /ʂu⁵⁵ ɕin⁵¹/, /fou²⁴ ɕiŋ⁴⁴/, /syː⁵⁵ sɵn³³/, /su²⁴⁻¹¹ sin⁵⁵/, /su⁴⁴⁻³⁵ sin⁵³/, /t͡sy⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ⁽ˢ⁻⁾lɛiŋ²¹³/, /su⁴⁴⁻³³ sin¹¹/, /su⁴⁴⁻³³ sin²¹/, /su⁴⁴⁻²² sin²¹/, /t͡sɯ³³ sin⁴¹/, /si⁴⁴⁻²² sin²¹/, /sz̩⁵⁵ ɕin²¹/ Chinese transliterations: shūxìn [Mandarin, Pinyin, standard], ㄕㄨ ㄒㄧㄣˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo, standard], фущин [Cyrillic, Dungan, Mandarin, Wiktionary-specific], fuxin [Cyrillic, Dungan, Mandarin, Wiktionary-specific], I-III [Cyrillic, Dungan, Mandarin, Wiktionary-specific], syu¹ seon³ [Cantonese, Jyutping], sû-sin [Hakka, PFS, Sixian], su¹ xin⁴ [Guangdong, Hakka, Meixian], cṳ̆-séng, su-sìn, chir-sìn, si-sìn, ¹sy-shin, shūxìn [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], ㄕㄨ ㄒㄧㄣˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo], shusìn [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], shu¹-hsin⁴ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], shū-syìn [Mandarin, Yale], shushinn [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], шусинь [Mandarin, Palladius], šusinʹ [Mandarin, Palladius], syū seun [Cantonese, Yale], sy¹ soen³ [Cantonese, Pinyin], xu¹ sên³ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], sû-sin [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], su´ xin [Hakka, Hakka-Romanization-System, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], su¹ xin⁴ [Hagfa-Pinyim, Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], cṳ̆-séng [Foochow-Romanized, Fuzhou], su-sìn [Hokkien, POJ], su-sìn [Hokkien, Tai-lo], susixn [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], chir-sìn [Hokkien, POJ], tsir-sìn [Hokkien, Tai-lo], si-sìn [Hokkien, POJ], si-sìn [Hokkien, Tai-lo], sisixn [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], ¹sy-shin [Wu], sy^平 shin [Wu], ¹sr-xin [Wu], /sz̩⁵⁵ ɕin²¹/ [Wu], syo sinH [Middle-Chinese]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 書信
  1. (formal) letter; epistle; written message Tags: formal Categories (topical): Communication
    Sense id: en-書信-zh-noun-uunkztE5 Disambiguation of Communication: 74 26
  2. (figuratively) messenger Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-書信-zh-noun-BQ-ZPqIy Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 18 82
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: , 信件 (xìnjiàn), 信函 (xìnhán), 信札 (xìnzhá), 八行 (bāháng) [literary], 八行書 (bāhángshū) [literary], 八行书 (bāhángshū) [literary], 函件 (hánjiàn), 手書 (shǒushū) [literary], 手书 (shǒushū) [literary], 手簡 (shǒujiǎn) [literary], 手简 (shǒujiǎn) [literary], (shū) [in-compounds, literary], (shū) [in-compounds, literary], 書函 (shūhán), 书函 (shūhán), 書札 (shūzhá) [literary], 书札 (shūzhá) [literary], 書牘 (shūdú) [literary], 书牍 (shūdú) [literary], 書簡 (shūjiǎn) [literary], 书简 (shūjiǎn) [literary], 筆札 (bǐzhá) [figuratively, literary], 笔札 (bǐzhá) [figuratively, literary], (jiǎn) [in-compounds, literary], (jiǎn) [in-compounds, literary], (hóng) [figuratively, literary], 鸿 (hóng) [figuratively, literary]

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        "Yale"
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      "tags": [
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        "Palladius"
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        "Sinological-IPA"
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      "tags": [
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        "Yale"
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      "tags": [
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        "Pinyin"
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
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      "zh-pron": "xu¹ sên³"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/syː⁵⁵ sɵn³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "su¹ xin⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su²⁴⁻¹¹ sin⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su⁴⁴⁻³⁵ sin⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meixian",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Foochow-Romanized",
        "Fuzhou"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "cṳ̆-séng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sy⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ⁽ˢ⁻⁾lɛiŋ²¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Fuzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "su-sìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "su-sìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "susixn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su⁴⁴⁻³³ sin¹¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su⁴⁴⁻³³ sin²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su⁴⁴⁻²² sin²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chir-sìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tsir-sìn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sɯ³³ sin⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "si-sìn"
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "si-sìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sisixn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/si⁴⁴⁻²² sin²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "¹sy-shin"
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
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      "zh-pron": "¹sr-xin"
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    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "zh-pron": "syo sinH"
    },
    {
      "other": "/ chir-sìn /"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʂu⁵⁵ ɕin⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fou²⁴ ɕiŋ⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/syː⁵⁵ sɵn³³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su²⁴⁻¹¹ sin⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su⁴⁴⁻³⁵ sin⁵³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sy⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ⁽ˢ⁻⁾lɛiŋ²¹³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su⁴⁴⁻³³ sin¹¹/"
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    {
      "ipa": "/su⁴⁴⁻³³ sin²¹/"
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    {
      "ipa": "/su⁴⁴⁻²² sin²¹/"
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      "ipa": "/t͡sɯ³³ sin⁴¹/"
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      "ipa": "/si⁴⁴⁻²² sin²¹/"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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        "literary"
      ],
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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        "literary"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "shūjiǎn",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "書簡"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "shūjiǎn",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "书简"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "bǐzhá",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "筆札"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "bǐzhá",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "笔札"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "jiǎn",
      "tags": [
        "in-compounds",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "簡"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "jiǎn",
      "tags": [
        "in-compounds",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "简"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "hóng",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "鴻"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "hóng",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "鸿"
    }
  ],
  "word": "書信"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Advanced Mandarin",
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese nouns",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Eastern Min lemmas",
    "Eastern Min nouns",
    "Middle Chinese lemmas",
    "zh:Communication"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 0,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "書信"
          },
          "expansion": "書信",
          "name": "lang"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ja",
            "2": "-",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Japanese:",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "書信",
            "2": "しょしん",
            "gloss": ""
          },
          "expansion": "書信(しょしん) (shoshin)",
          "name": "ja-r"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ko",
            "2": "서신(書信)",
            "3": "",
            "4": "",
            "5": "",
            "bor": "1",
            "t": "",
            "t2": "",
            "t3": "",
            "t4": ""
          },
          "expansion": "→ Korean: 서신(書信) (seosin)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vi",
            "2": "書信",
            "sc": "Hani"
          },
          "expansion": "書信",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vi",
            "2": "thư tín",
            "bor": "1",
            "t": "",
            "tr": "書信"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Vietnamese: thư tín (書信)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "書信",
            "2": "しょしん",
            "3": "서신",
            "4": "thư tín",
            "5": "",
            "6": "",
            "h": "書信",
            "j2": "",
            "j2t": "",
            "j3": "",
            "j3t": "",
            "j4": "",
            "j4t": "",
            "jdesc": "",
            "jje2": "",
            "jje2t": "",
            "jje3": "",
            "jje3t": "",
            "jje4": "",
            "jje4t": "",
            "jjedesc": "",
            "jjet": "",
            "jt": "",
            "k2": "",
            "k2t": "",
            "k3": "",
            "k3t": "",
            "k4": "",
            "k4t": "",
            "kdesc": "",
            "kt": "",
            "o": "書信",
            "o2": "",
            "o2t": "",
            "o3": "",
            "o3t": "",
            "o4": "",
            "o4t": "",
            "odesc": "",
            "ot": "",
            "s": "書信",
            "v": "書信",
            "v2": "",
            "v2t": "",
            "v3": "",
            "v3t": "",
            "v4": "",
            "v4t": "",
            "vdesc": "",
            "vt": ""
          },
          "expansion": "Sino-Xenic (書信):\n* → Japanese: 書信(しょしん) (shoshin)\n* → Korean: 서신(書信) (seosin)\n* → Vietnamese: thư tín (書信)",
          "name": "CJKV/code"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "",
            "2": "しょしん",
            "3": "서신",
            "4": "thư tín"
          },
          "expansion": "Sino-Xenic (書信):\n* → Japanese: 書信(しょしん) (shoshin)\n* → Korean: 서신(書信) (seosin)\n* → Vietnamese: thư tín (書信)",
          "name": "CJKV"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sino-Xenic (書信):\n* → Japanese: 書信(しょしん) (shoshin)\n* → Korean: 서신(書信) (seosin)\n* → Vietnamese: thư tín (書信)"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "書信",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Chinese formal terms",
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "保羅書信/保罗书信 ― Bǎoluó shūxìn ― Pauline epistles",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "letter; epistle; written message"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "letter",
          "letter"
        ],
        [
          "epistle",
          "epistle"
        ],
        [
          "written",
          "written"
        ],
        [
          "message",
          "message"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(formal) letter; epistle; written message"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "messenger"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "messenger",
          "messenger"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) messenger"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shūxìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄕㄨ ㄒㄧㄣˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "Dungan",
        "Mandarin",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "фущин"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "Dungan",
        "Mandarin",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "fuxin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "Dungan",
        "Mandarin",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "I-III"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syu¹ seon³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "PFS",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sû-sin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Guangdong",
        "Hakka",
        "Meixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "su¹ xin⁴"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "cṳ̆-séng"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "su-sìn"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "chir-sìn"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "si-sìn"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "¹sy-shin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shūxìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄕㄨ ㄒㄧㄣˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shusìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shu¹-hsin⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shū-syìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "shushinn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "шусинь"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "šusinʹ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʂu⁵⁵ ɕin⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fou²⁴ ɕiŋ⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Dungan",
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syū seun"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sy¹ soen³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xu¹ sên³"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/syː⁵⁵ sɵn³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sû-sin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "su´ xin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "su¹ xin⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su²⁴⁻¹¹ sin⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su⁴⁴⁻³⁵ sin⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meixian",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Foochow-Romanized",
        "Fuzhou"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "cṳ̆-séng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sy⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ⁽ˢ⁻⁾lɛiŋ²¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Fuzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "su-sìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "su-sìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "susixn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su⁴⁴⁻³³ sin¹¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su⁴⁴⁻³³ sin²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su⁴⁴⁻²² sin²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "chir-sìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tsir-sìn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sɯ³³ sin⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "si-sìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "si-sìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sisixn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/si⁴⁴⁻²² sin²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "¹sy-shin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "sy^平 shin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "¹sr-xin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/sz̩⁵⁵ ɕin²¹/"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syo sinH"
    },
    {
      "other": "/ chir-sìn /"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʂu⁵⁵ ɕin⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fou²⁴ ɕiŋ⁴⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/syː⁵⁵ sɵn³³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su²⁴⁻¹¹ sin⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su⁴⁴⁻³⁵ sin⁵³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sy⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ⁽ˢ⁻⁾lɛiŋ²¹³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su⁴⁴⁻³³ sin¹¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su⁴⁴⁻³³ sin²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/su⁴⁴⁻²² sin²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sɯ³³ sin⁴¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/si⁴⁴⁻²² sin²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sz̩⁵⁵ ɕin²¹/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "信"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xìnjiàn",
      "word": "信件"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xìnhán",
      "word": "信函"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xìnzhá",
      "word": "信札"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bāháng",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "八行"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bāhángshū",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "八行書"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bāhángshū",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "八行书"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hánjiàn",
      "word": "函件"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shǒushū",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "手書"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shǒushū",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "手书"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shǒujiǎn",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "手簡"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shǒujiǎn",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "手简"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shū",
      "tags": [
        "in-compounds",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "書"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shū",
      "tags": [
        "in-compounds",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "书"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shūhán",
      "word": "書函"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shūhán",
      "word": "书函"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shūzhá",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "書札"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shūzhá",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "书札"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shūdú",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "書牘"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shūdú",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "书牍"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shūjiǎn",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "書簡"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shūjiǎn",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "书简"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bǐzhá",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "筆札"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bǐzhá",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "笔札"
    },
    {
      "roman": "jiǎn",
      "tags": [
        "in-compounds",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "簡"
    },
    {
      "roman": "jiǎn",
      "tags": [
        "in-compounds",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "简"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hóng",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "鴻"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hóng",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "鸿"
    }
  ],
  "word": "書信"
}

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