新

Stroke order

This character's appearance varies by script because of Han unification:

• In mainland China, the bottom left component is written 朩, giving 新.
• In Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, the bottom left component is written 𣎳, giving 新.
• In Japan and Korea, the bottom left component is written 木, giving 新.

新 (Kangxi radical 69, 斤+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜木竹一中 (YDHML), four-corner 0292₁, composition ⿰亲斤)

• 𫣩, 噺, 𭢭, 澵, 𬎖, 𨭩, 𫚀, 𬷵, 𪧭, 薪, 𨑁, 𭏻, 㜪, 𪬴, 𭺦

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 480, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13572
• Dae Jaweon: page 839, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2026, character 21
• Unihan data for U+65B0

 

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 新 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 新朝 (Cantonese)
• 新 (Classical)
• Sin (kin-pêng) (Southern Min)
• 新朝 (Wu)

Historical forms of the character 新
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *siŋ) : phonetic 亲 (OC *siŋ, “hazelnut tree”) + semantic 斤 (“axe”) – to cut down a tree with an axe (hence starting something new). In this character, 亲 is the stylized form of 𣓀, a chisel over a tree to indicate the hazelnut tree or the hazelnut branch, that could be used as a whip.

Also ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) . Original form of 薪 (OC *siŋ, “firewood”).

Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Burmese သစ် (sac, “new”). Compare the cognacy between 薪 (OC *siŋ, “firewood”) and Burmese သစ် (sac, “wood; timber”).

This word may belong to the Sino-Tibetan stem Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ (“alive, fresh, green”) and may hence be related to 青 (OC *sʰleːŋ, “green”) as well as 薪 (OC *siŋ, “firewood”) (Schuessler, 2007).

新

1. new; fresh

   Antonyms: 舊／旧 (jiù), 老 (lǎo)

   新芽  ―  xīnyá  ―  sprout; bud

   新風氣／新风气  ―  xīn fēngqì  ―  new trend; new atmosphere

   新產品／新产品  ―  xīn chǎnpǐn  ―  new product

   新納粹／新纳粹  ―  xīnnàcuì  ―  neo-Nazi

   新鮭魚二月前不上市，對嗎？ [MSC, trad.]
   新鲑鱼二月前不上市，对吗？ [MSC, simp.]

   Xīn guīyú èryuè qián bù shàngshì, duì ma? [Pinyin]

   Fresh salmon doesn't come in before February, does it?

2. new; unused

   Antonym: 舊／旧 (jiù)

   新車／新车  ―  xīn chē  ―  new car

   新衫 [Cantonese]  ―  san¹ saam¹ [Jyutping]  ―  new clothes

3. recently or just married

   新人  ―  xīnrén  ―  newly married couple

   新娘  ―  xīnniáng  ―  bride

4. the new

   迎新  ―  yíngxīn  ―  to welcome new arrivals

   推陳出新／推陈出新  ―  tuīchénchūxīn  ―  to get rid of the old and bring forth the new

5. to make new

   耳目一新  ―  ěrmùyīxīn  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 苟日新、日日新、又日新。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE

     Gǒu rì xīn, rìrì xīn, yòu rì xīn. [Pinyin]

     If you can one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation.

6. newly; freshly; recently

   新建成的超市  ―  xīn jiànchéng de chāoshì  ―  newly built supermarket

   係新買返嚟嘅。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   系新买返嚟嘅。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   hai⁶ san¹ maai⁵ faan¹ lai⁴ ge³. [Jyutping]

   I bought it only a while ago.

7. (chemistry) meso-
8. a surname. Xin
9. (～朝) Xin dynasty
10. Short for 新疆 (Xīnjiāng).
11. Short for 新加坡 (Xīnjiāpō).
12. Short for 新西蘭／新西兰 (Xīnxīlán).

    澳新銀行／澳新银行  ―  Ào Xīn Yínháng  ―  Australia and New Zealand Banking Corporation (ANZ Bank)

Others:

• → Thai: ซิง (sing)

• “Entry #9526”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

• 𣂺: see   新の本字 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. new
2. change, reform

• Go-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kun: あたらしい (atarashii, 新しい, Jōyō)、あらた (arata, 新た, Jōyō)、あら (ara, 新)、にい (nii, 新, Jōyō)^{←にひ (nifi, 新, historical)}、さら (sara, 新)
• Nanori: あきら (akira)、あせ (ase)、あたらし (atarashi)、し (shi)、すすむ (susumu)、ちか (chika)、に (ni)、につ (nitsu)、はじめ (hajime)、よし (yoshi)、わか (waka)

/sin/ → /ɕin/

From Middle Chinese 新 (MC sin).

Compare modern Mandarin 新 (xīn), Hakka 新 (sîn), Min Nan 新 (sin), and Wu 新.

• (Tokyo) しん [shíꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1] as a noun
• IPA^(key): [ɕĩɴ]

新(しん) • (shin) 

1. a novelty

   Antonym: 旧 (kyū)

2. Short for 新暦 (shinreki): the Gregorian calendar
3. Short for 新株 (shinkabu) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
4. Short for 新銀 (shingin) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
5. Short for 新造 (shinzō) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

新(しん) • (shin-) 

1. neo-

   新(しん)元(げん)号(ごう)

   shin-gengō

   new era name

   新(しん)世(せ)界(かい)

   Shinsekai

   the New World

   新(しん)約(やく)聖(せい)書(しょ)

   Shin'yaku Seisho

   the New Testament

2. attached to the title of a fiction work to mean “new storyline”, to distinguish it from older works

   新(しん)鉄(てっ)拳(けん)チンミ

   Shin Tekken Chinmi

   New Ironfist Chinmi

3. attached to the title of a fiction adaptation to mean “remake”, to distinguish it from older adaptations

   Lois & Clark　新(しん)スーパーマン

   Lois & Clark Shin Sūpāman

   Lois & Clark: New Superman

 

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

新

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English Wikipedia has an article on:

Xin dynasty

Wikipedia

新(しん) • (Shin) 

1. (historical) the Xin dynasty (8–23 CE)
2. a placename
3. a surname
4. a male or female given name

⟨nipi₁⟩ → /nipʲi/ → /nifi/ → /niwi/ → /niː/

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *nipi.

新(にい) • (nii-) 

1. new, novel
2. fresh
3. original

From Old Japanese.

Extension of 粗, 荒 (ara, “crude, raw”).

新(あら) • (ara-) 

1. new
2. unused
3. natural

新(あら) • (Ara) 

1. a surname

新(さら) • (sara) 

1. something new and unused