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朕

朕

朕 U+6715, 朕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6715
← 朔
[U+6714] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 朖 →
[U+6716]

Translingual

Han character

朕 (radical 74 月+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月廿大 (BTK), four-corner 78234, composition ⿰月关)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 505, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14361
  • Dae Jaweon: page 884, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2071, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6715

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 朕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 朕
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (朕) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
黱 *l'ɯːs
朕 *l'ɯmʔ
鰧 *l'ɯmʔ, *l'ɯːŋ
螣 *l'ɯmʔ, *l'ɯːŋ, *l'ɯːɡ
栚 *l'ɯmʔ
眹 *l'ɯnʔ
騰 *l'ɯːŋ
滕 *l'ɯːŋ
縢 *l'ɯːŋ
儯 *l'ɯːŋ
幐 *l'ɯːŋ, *l'ɯːŋs
藤 *l'ɯːŋ
謄 *l'ɯːŋ
膡 *l'ɯːŋ, *hljɯŋs, *lɯŋs
籐 *l'ɯːŋ
勝 *hljɯŋ, *hljɯŋs
蕂 *hljɯŋs
榺 *hljɯŋs
塍 *ɦljɯŋ
媵 *ljɯŋs, *lɯŋs
賸 *ɦljɯŋs, *lɯŋs

Simplified from 𦩎 (舟 → 月 and 灷 → 关), corruption of an ideogrammic compound (會意) : 舟 ‎(“boat”) + 丨 ‎(“item”) + 廾 ‎(“two hands”), seen in the oracle bone script and bronze inscriptions, originally meaning “to mend a boat”. It was later borrowed to be used as a first-person pronoun.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 朕
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 侵 (140)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 直稔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖˠiɪmX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖᵚimX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡiemX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖjimX/
Li
Rong		 /ȡjəmX/
Wang
Li		 /ȡĭĕmX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱi̯əmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhèn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 朕
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhèn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ drimX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lrəmʔ/
English I, we, our

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 朕
Reading # 1/1
No. 17110
Phonetic
component		 朕
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 朕
Old
Chinese		 /*l'ɯmʔ/

Definitions

朕

  1. I; my (reserved for use by the emperor after the Qin Dynasty)
  2. omen

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 我 (“I”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 吾、我、私、余、予、台、朕
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 我
Mandarin Beijing 我
Jinan 我、俺
Xi'an 我
Wuhan 我
Chengdu 我
Yangzhou 我
Hefei 我
Cantonese Guangzhou 我
Hong Kong 我
Taishan 我
Yangjiang 我
Gan Nanchang 我
Hakka Meixian 𠊎
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 𠊎
Liudui (S. Sixian) 𠊎
Hsinchu (Hailu) 𠊎
Dongshi (Dabu) 𠊎
Zhuolan (Raoping) 𠊎
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 𠊎
Jin Taiyuan 我
Min Bei Jian'ou 我
Min Dong Fuzhou 我、奴
Min Nan Xiamen 我
Taipei 我
Chaozhou 我
Wu Shanghai 我、吾、阿拉
Suzhou 我、奴
Wenzhou 我
Ningbo 我、我儂、像我
Xiang Changsha 我
Shuangfeng 我、卬

Compounds

  • 兆朕
  • 朕兆
  • 朕命

Japanese

Kanji

朕

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. I (used by royalty)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
朕
ちん
Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronoun

朕 ‎(hiragana ちん, romaji chin)

  1. I (used by royalty)

Korean

Hanja

朕 • ‎(jim) (hangeul 짐, revised jim, McCune-Reischauer chim, Yale cim)

  1. I (used by royalty, usually an emperor)

Vietnamese

Han character

  1. Hán tự form of trẫm, “I; me” (only used by a monarch)

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