Refers to one's social standing, honor, or the respect one commands. Often used in phrases like 沽券に関わる (affecting one's dignity).
If I do that, it will affect my dignity.
Archaic legal and commercial term. Sense 2 refers to a deed of sale for land, forest, or house; sense 3 refers to the sale value or selling price. Both are historical and not used in modern Japanese.
He got angry, feeling his reputation had been damaged.
In the Edo period, a deed of sale recorded the selling price of the land.
Standard kanji form for the modern sense of dignity or reputation.
Rarely used kanji form.
Originally a term for a deed of sale or its value in the Edo period, later extended metaphorically to mean one's social worth or dignity. The exact derivation of the kanji is uncertain, but the modern sense is well-established.