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枕

枕

Translingual

Han character

枕 (radical 75 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木中月山 (DLBU), four-corner 44912, composition ⿰木冘)

  1. pillow

References

  • KangXi: page 515, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14546
  • Dae Jaweon: page 903, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1175, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6795

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 枕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 枕
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (冘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
冘 *lu, *lum
抌 *lu, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *loʔ
狖 *lus
貁 *lus
耽 *ʔl'uːm
眈 *ʔl'uːm, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *l'uːm
酖 *ʔl'uːm
妉 *ʔl'uːm
黕 *ʔl'uːmʔ
衴 *ʔl'uːmʔ
瓭 *ʔl'uːmʔ
馾 *ʔl'uːms
髧 *l'uːmʔ
紞 *ʔl'oːmʔ
鈂 *zlum, *l'um
沈 *l'um, *l'ums, *hljumʔ
沉 *l'um
枕 *l'um, *ʔljumʔ, *ʔljums
莐 *l'um
霃 *l'um
鴆 *l'ums
訦 *ɦljum, *ɦljumʔ
忱 *ɦljum
邥 *hljumʔ
魫 *hljumʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 枕 枕 枕
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 澄 (11) 章 (23) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 侵 (140) 侵 (139) 侵 (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) Chongniu III III III
Fanqie 直深切 章荏切 之任切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖˠiɪm/ /t͡ɕiɪmX/ /t͡ɕiɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖᵚim/ /t͡ɕimX/ /t͡ɕimH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡiem/ /t͡ɕjemX/ /t͡ɕjemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖjim/ /cimX/ /cimH/
Li
Rong		 /ȡjəm/ /t͡ɕiəmX/ /t͡ɕiəmH/
Wang
Li		 /ȡĭĕm/ /t͡ɕĭĕmX/ /t͡ɕĭĕmH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱi̯əm/ /t͡ɕi̯əmX/ /t͡ɕi̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chén zhěn zhèn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 枕 枕
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhěn zhèn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyimX › ‹ tsyimH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[t.k][ə]mʔ/ /*[t.k][ə]mʔ-s/
English pillow use as a pillow

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 枕 枕 枕
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 15257 15262 15263
Phonetic
component		 冘 冘 冘
Rime
group		 侵 侵 侵
Rime
subdivision		 3 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 沈 枕 枕
Old
Chinese		 /*l'um/ /*ʔljumʔ/ /*ʔljums/

Definitions

枕

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References

Japanese

Kanji

枕

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

枕 ‎(hiragana まくら, romaji makura)

  1. pillow

Korean

Hanja

枕 • ‎(chim) (hangeul 침, revised chim, McCune-Reischauer ch'im, Yale chim)

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Vietnamese

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