Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- shēn
English
- girdle
- member of gentry
- tie, bind
- gentry
Variants
Words containing 紳
- 紳士san1 si2
gentleman
- 鄉紳hoeng1 san1
a scholar or government official living in one's village
- 太平紳士taai3 ping4 san1 si2
Justice of the Peace (JP)
- 豪紳hou4 san1
local despot
- 縉紳zeon3 san1
government official; retired official
- 士紳si6 san1
- 士紳化si6 san1 faa3
to undergo gentrification; to gentrify
- 劣紳lyut3 san1
evil gentry
- 仕紳si6 san1
- 仕紳化si6 san1 faa3
to undergo gentrification; to gentrify
- 土豪劣紳tou2 hou4 lyut3 san1
local bosses, shady gentry (idiom); dominant local mafia
- 紳衿父老san1 kam1 fu6 lou5