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Translingual

Han character

(radical 32 +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 土日女 (GAV), four-corner 47132, composition)

  1. boundary, bank of stream or river

References

  • KangXi: page 228, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5054
  • Dae Jaweon: page 464, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 442, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+57A0

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*krɯːn
*kʰrɯːnʔ, *kʰɯːnʔ, *ŋɯn
*ŋrɯːnʔ
*ɡrɯːn
*ɡrɯːnʔ
*ɡrɯːnʔ
*kʰɯːnʔ, *kʰɯːnʔ, *kʰuːn
*ɡlɯːnʔ, *kɯːnʔ, *kɯːns
*kɯːn
*kɯːn
*kɯːn, *kɯːns, *ŋrɯn
*kɯːns
*kɯːns
*kʰɯːnʔ
*kʰɯːnʔ
*ŋɯːn, *ŋrɯn, *ŋɯn
泿 *ŋɯːn, *ŋrɯn
*ɡɯːn
*ɡɯːn
*ɡɯːn
*ɡɯːnʔ
*ɡɯːns
*ŋrɯn
*ŋrɯn

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial () (31) (31) (31)
Final () (44) (57) (53)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () Chongniu III III I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋˠiɪn/ /ŋɨn/ /ŋən/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋᵚin/ /ŋɨn/ /ŋən/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋien/ /ŋiən/ /ŋən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋjin/ /ŋɨn/ /ŋən/
Li
Rong
/ŋjĕn/ /ŋiən/ /ŋən/
Wang
Li
/ŋǐĕn/ /ŋĭən/ /ŋən/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ŋi̯ĕn/ /ŋi̯ən/ /ŋən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yín yín én
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yín
Middle
Chinese
‹ ngjɨn ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ŋ]ər/
English raised border, dike

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
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 3932 3940 3944
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋɯːn/ /*ŋrɯn/ /*ŋɯn/
Notes

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(eun) (hangeul , revised eun, McCune-Reischauer ŭn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hằn, ngăn, ngấn, ngân, ngần)

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