立身

Chinese

		to establish, to keep upright	self
trad. (立身)		立	身
simp. ^#(立身)		立	身

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lìshēn

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ ㄕㄣ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lìshēn
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ ㄕㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lìshen
  - Wade–Giles: li⁴-shên¹
  - Yale: lì-shēn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lihshen
  - Palladius: лишэнь (lišɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹ ʂən⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: lip syin

Rime
Character	立	身
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	侵 (141)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	力入切	失人切
Baxter	lip	syin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liɪp̚/	/ɕiɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/lip̚/	/ɕin/
Shao Rongfen	/ljep̚/	/ɕjen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lip̚/	/ɕin/
Li Rong	/liəp̚/	/ɕiĕn/
Wang Li	/lĭĕp̚/	/ɕĭĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/li̯əp̚/	/ɕi̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lì	shēn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lap⁶	san¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*k.rəp n̥i[ŋ]/

(Zhengzhang): /*rɯb qʰjin/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	立	身
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lì	shēn
Middle Chinese	‹ lip ›	‹ syin ›
Old Chinese	/*k.rəp/	/*n̥i[ŋ]/
English	stand (v.)	body; self
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	立	身
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	7869	11247
Phonetic component	立	身
Rime group	緝	眞
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	立	申
Old Chinese	/*rɯb/	/*qʰjin/
Notes		甲金文象人鼓其腹，表其身有孕，非申聲

Verb

立身

(literary) to establish oneself; to develop oneself; to grow
- 且夫孝始於事親，中於事君，終於立身。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  且夫孝始于事亲，中于事君，终于立身。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
  Qiě fú xiào shǐyú shìqīn, zhōngyú shìjūn, zhōngyú lìshēn. [Pinyin]
  And xiao begins with attending one's parents, issues forth as one serve the monarch, and completes with establishing one's own character.

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