信使

Chinese

		letter; true; to believe letter; true; to believe; sign; evidence	to make; to cause; to enable to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; messenger
simp. and trad. (信使)		信	使

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*s-ni[ŋ]-s s-rəʔ-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*hljins srɯs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	信	使
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xìn	shǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ sin^H ›	‹ sri^H ›
Old Chinese	/*s-ni[ŋ]-s/	/*s-rəʔ-s/
English	truthful	envoy
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	信	使
Reading #	1/1	2/2
No.	13849	11491
Phonetic component	信	史
Rime group	眞	之
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	信	𩢲
Old Chinese	/*hljins/	/*srɯs/
Notes	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

信使

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